Author(s): Daler ZAYNIEV

Title: THE POLYSEMY OF THE COLOUR TERM BLACK IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, TAJIK AND UZBEK

Source: Sz. Simon, P. Baka, A. Litovkina (eds.): 15th International Conference of J. Selye University. Language and Literacy Sections. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-497-3

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/4973.2024.71

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2024, 71-90

Published on-line: 2024

Language: en

Abstract: Colours are omnipresent phenomena; it is almost impossible to imagine any objects without having a particular colour. Despite the ubiquity of colours their physiological perception is correlated with various cognitive and cultural conceptualizations across cultures. The present study aims to carry out an analysis of the polysemy black in four distant languages from lexicological and lexicographical perspective, starting with a semasiological analysis. The lexicographic tradition in the treatment of black attempts to minimize polysemy, its senses are typically lumped, rather than split. The aims are to investigate the similarities and differences in the representation of adjectives denoting black across English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek, and to compare dictionaries with respect to the way they structure their meanings. The study proposes suggestions for the improvement of the approach to black in general use and pedagogical dictionaries.

Keywords: black, white, polysemy, metaphor, metonymy, lumped, split, lexicographic presentation, dictionaries

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