Nazwy barw w opisach przyrody nieożywionej (na materiale opowiadań Aleksandra Grina)

Abstract

The analysis of color names provides valuable information about the models of perception, association and interpretation models of the world presented in a literary work. The main porpuose of his paper is to reconstruct a fragment of the color picture of the world of the outstanding Russian writer Aleksander Grin. The subject of analysis are the names of colors used by the novel’s author to describe inanimate nature objects, which can be divided into three classes: 1) surface water, 2) surface and rocky ground, 3) air and weather phenomena. Aleksander Grin uses in his novels numerous color names to create pictures of inanimate nature, which represent four fields of chromatic colours: blue, green, red and yellow, and three fields of achromatic colors: white, black and grey. The words, referring to colours, used in the analysed works are represented by different parts of speech – not only adjectives (15 lexems), but also nouns (6), adverbs (1), verbs (2) and participles (2).