''Symbolic'' in colour terms of folk culture (linguistic and cultural aspects)

Comprehension of the world people's consciousness took placewith all the senses, and therefore, assessment, standards setting in popular culture is largely associated with the colour. In modernscience, great attention is paid to the interaction of language and culture, language and thought processes, perception. Colour as one ofthe most important factors in man's perception and description of the world stands out as a modelling element of folk linguistic pictureof the world and is the subject of study of linguistics, ethnolinguistics, cognitive linguistics. The main place in these studies is the studyof the semantics of colour to identify associative, symbolic meanings. The object of the article is based on the symbolic meaning ofwhite, red and black colours in Russian national culture. The symbolism of white colour in folk culture is realised in the transition ritesof birth, marriage, death and other. Text describing a wedding ceremony in the Middle Ob region reflects the functioning of ''white'' toindicate the transition state between the living and the dead, and actualise the symbolic meaning of death, afterlife, as well as the mascotof the semantics. In the wedding ceremony ''red'' often means the semantics of life, health and girl's young ages. The semantics of theelements seen in the wedding ceremony aimed at identifying the honesty (innocence) of the bride. There also is an all-Russian context,demonstrating the use of tokens in relation to the girl of marriageable age in the sense of ''beautiful'', ''young''. In the dialects of theMiddle Ob region black colour is mostly presented in opposition to the white and has a different semantics. For example, the designationof the colour ''black'' appears in the description of wedding train horses. They symbolise the bride's transportation from one world toanother and perform a protective function. Traditionally, the groom's suit is black and white. This indicates the status of the subject whois in a transitional state between our world and other ones. Thus, white, red and black colours are symbols in the Russian folk culture.The colour symbol reflects the colour picture of the world, at the same time subjected to mental processing, it becomes an instrument ofremaking reality and a means of transmitting cultural and spiritual experience of the people.

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