Colour terms of the dialect person: functional-and-semantic aspect

Colour terms are culturally marked that is why they are actively researched in modern linguistics. It is topical to study them in the aspect of linguistic personality. Research of colour terms in the idiolect of a dialect speaker can add to the conception of common and regional features of these nomination class, help to reveal typological features of linguistic personality. The object of the analysis is colour terms as a part of vocabulary of a Siberian peasant woman, V.P. Vershinina. The main material source is The Complete Dictionary of the Dialect Linguistic Personality (Tomsk, 2006-2012). The system of colour terms in the dialect speaker's vocabulary has 180 lexico-semantic variants (including 21 similes) for naming colour. Also we examined the usage of colour terms in the meaning of quality (black'- 'dirty ), they are else 27 lexico-semantic variants. The goal of the present paper is to describe functions of the colour terms in the individual vocabulary. The typology of functions suggested in the article is made on the basis of semantic characteristics of the elements. Nominative function corresponds to using colour terms in literal meaning without complementary components. Colour terms in this function characterize a wide range of objects such as human eyes, hair, clothes and animals, plants. Informative function is understood as a variety of the nominative and occurs in case of semantic transformation 'colour'-'quality'. Additional semantic components can be different. Often it is 'illness' when the point is the colour of the skin or 'variety' if the point is plants. Evaluating function is using colour terms for expressing evaluation. The main examples are widely used in the idiolect colour diminutives. Aesthetic function is typical for comparisons, which often express positive aesthetic evaluation. Intensive function can be separated on the basis of intensive semantic component. Functions can be combined. Very often comparisons are used to underline the intensity of the colour so we can speak about the aesthetic function which interferes with the intensive function. Conclusions: colour nomination in the individual vocabulary of a dialect speaker is often joined with expressivity (evaluation, figurativeness and intensity are components of it) and expressing of subjective senses of the speaker (amicability or emotional influence on the interlocutor). Semantic transformation is typical for a dialect speaker. Unlike writers' idiolects, transformation is minimum, often it is differences between shades of meaning.

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