LEXICO-SEMANTIC FEATURES OF COLORATIVE VOCABULARY IN WORKS OF K.G. PAUSTOVSKY

Abstract

The article considers the peculiarities of functioning of the color vocabulary in the stories of K.G. Paustovsky “Yellow Light” and “Watercolor paints.” The study provides a comprehensive analysis of the coloristic space of texts, represented as a field structure, identifies the dominant color blocks, intermediate, quasi-blocks, defines the color names that make up the core, the near-core space, the immediate and far periphery, analyzes the similarities and differences in the composition of the coloratives of these works, which allows to identify the dominant palette of colors in works describing one period. The functional potential of color nominations in K.G. Paustovsky’s stories is established, the dominant functions in both works are characterized, realizable and unrealized functions are noted, which makes it possible to determine the role of coloratives in the writer’s idiosyncrasy, to identify the potential use of color meanings in the space of a literary text.