LEXICAL-SEMANTIC FIELD OF THE COLOR RED IN YEREMEI AIPIN’S “HOLY MOTHER IN THE BLOOD-RED SNOW”

Abstract

The article deals with the lexical-semantic field of color in "Holy Mother in the Blood-Red Snow" (Bozhya mater v krovavykh snegakh) by Yeremei Aipin. In the course of the recent decades the relevance of studying lexicons as a structural system has been observed throughout various scientific studies in the field of linguistics, particularly in semantics. The goal of the study is to determine the functional aspects of color lexicon in a literary text. The objectives of the study are to define the usage frequency of words that stand for the color red, to note the semantic features of given color lexemes in a particular literary text, and to define their status in the text and in the author's system of stylistic devices. Color terms in a literary text usually become not only units of meaning, but also express the author's personal worldview. Thus, the studied material could be used in the study of the semantics of anthropocentrism, internal systemic lexical connections and relations, and individual style of a particular author.

Keywords

• semantics
• color lexicon
• color terms
• lexical-semantic field
• семантика
• колоратив
• цветолексема
• лексико-семантическое поле