Colour idioms in English, German, Russian

ISBN-13: 9783330067431 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 120 str.

Varvara Kurylova; Olga Guseva

Opis

The present research is aimed at conducting an analysis of idioms with headwords denoting colour terms in English, German and Russian. The object of the research is the phraseological stock of the languages, and the subject - discrepancies in emotional colouring of the idioms among the languages. The analysis of idioms created for this research is based on the semantic criteria with the stress on the type of attitude, conveyed by the idiomatic expressions and makes use of the descriptive and comparative methods.

O autorze

Varvara Kurylova - Bachelor of Linguistics, a young but enthuasitic researcher.In 2016 graduated from Moscow State Linguistic University.Languages spoken: Russian (native speaker), English, German.At present a student of West Virginia University, USA.Research interests: comparative linguistics, phraseology.