COLOR TERMS IN THE NOVEL BY E.D. AIPIN “AT THE DYING HEARTH”

Abstract

The paper studies color terms in the novel of a famous Khanty writer E.D. Aipin “At the Dying Hearth”. As a result of the conducted research, it is revealed that both simple and complex color lexemes are used in the novel, the most frequent of them are white and red. A distinctive feature of E.D. Aipin’s idiostyle is the use of complex, individually-authorial color lexemes, for example, gray-headed waves; glassypale-green, shapeless-purple-black, yellow-disembodied tears of ancestors; description of the color of the voice, the color of the smell. The color terms in the novel “At the Dying Hearth” mainly performs nominative and symbolic functions. The most symbolically loaded is the white – red opposition, representing life and blood, trouble; on the one hand, the past, in which everything was fine, on the other hand, the present, in which there is grief and suffering. The second opposition is also intertwined with these symbolic meanings: light and dark, as a confrontation between good and evil, light and dark principles.