„Nieopisany błękit wody, która ściąga na siebie barwę nieba". Nazwy barw w powieści „Zatoka śpiewających traw” Stanisławy Fleszarowej-Muskat
The indescribable blue of water which attracts the colour of the sky: colour terms in the novel „Zatoka śpiewających traw” by Stanisława Fleszarowa-

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze colour terms used in the novel „Zatoka śpiewających traw” [The Bay of Singing Grass] by Stanisława Fleszarowa-Muskat (1919-1989). The writer conventionally employs colour words to create the characters of the novel, including their appearance and emotions, the latter being expressed metonymically: SYMPTOM (i.e. COLOUR) FOR EMOTION. However, descriptions of landscapes, especially of the sea, are poetic. It appears that they also serve to create the main character, a young woman who is a chemist. In the descriptions of the sea, the writer frequently employs the colour noun „błękit” '(sky) blue'. The writer uses 177 colour terms; 66.1% of them are basic and 39.9% are nonbasic. The frequency ranking list of the basic colour terms, especially the primary ones: „biały” 'white', „czarny” 'black', „czerwony” 'red', „zielony” 'green', „żółty” 'yellow' and „niebieski” 'blue', correlates with the evolutionary sequence proposed by Berlin and Kay in „Basic Color Terms” (1969).

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