EVALUATION FUNCTION OF COLOURONIMS IN A. S. PUSHKIN’S NOVEL “EUGENE ONEGIN”

Soskina Svetlana Nikolaevna, Candidate of philological sciences, professor, sub-department of linguistics and intercultural communication, Institute of Sociohumanitarian technologies and communications, I. Kant Baltic Federal University (14 A. Nevskogo street, Kalinigrad, Russia), soskinasn@mail.ru
Osintseva-Raevskaya Ekaterina Anatol'evna, Postgraduate student, Institute of Sociohumanitarian technologies and communications, I. Kant Baltic Federal University (14 A. Nevskogo street, Kalinigrad, Russia), solom_ka@mail.ru

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Background. Despite a great number of works devoted to the study of A. S. Pushkin’s literary activities, the principles of the use of the lexico-semantic field “colour” in the poet’s aesthetic system have not gained due recognition and understanding. In the article from the perspective of the cognitive approach to the study of linguistic facts the authors consider the functioning of colour terms and the specificity of their representation in the artistic space of A. S. Pushkin's novel “Eugene Onegin”.
Materials and methods. The research material were the works by A. S. Pushkin. The methodological potential included the immanent analysis of the motive’s structure of works.
Results. A solid selection of colour terms used in the novel demonstrates the poet’s wide range of expressive means and distinguishes the most common ones. The authors presented a classification of colouronims aimed at revealing the poet’s individual system of dividing the real world on the basis of lexical and semantic criteria and co-occurrence. The most frequently used colouronims were considered according to the principle of constructing a verbal associative network.
Conclusions. The analysis of the specificity of the writer’s colour symbolism in A. S. Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” has revealed that the simultaneous use of primary and secondary meanings of colouronims adds profundity and expressiveness to the narrative.

colour term, colour image, colouronim, axiological category.

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