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ADJECTIVAL COLOUR NAMES: COMPARATIVE APPROAСH

ADJECTIVAL COLOUR NAMES: COMPARATIVE APPROAСH


Author:  E. S. Kokanova

Abstract
The paper deals with cognitive and semantic aspects of colour names treated as units shaped by human experience. The article analyses the difference in the red colour in English, German and Russian. The correspondence between cognitive field and lexical field is different from language to language.

Keywords:  colour names, correspondences, cognitive / lexical aspects

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