Kolory w języku i kulturze bułgarskiej
Colours in Bulgarian language and culture

Author(s): Mariola Walczak-Mikołajczakowa
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Bulgarian Literature, Phraseology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Bulgarian language; color names; phraseology; toponymy; anthroponymy; chrematonymy; folklore
Summary/Abstract: The monograph considers colour naming in modern Bulgarian in all its possible aspects. The author's inquiries focus on the origins of individual names, and then analyze their contribution to the formation of antonyms, toponyms, chrematonyms and phytonyms. She also presents that part of phraseology whose important component from the point of view of semantics are the names of colours. The linguistic analysis is complemented by a presentation of the names of colours preserved in texts important from the point of view of the history of the Bulgarian language and in folk creativity, as well as a study of the connotations which the names of colours evoke, i.e. the establishment of their symbolic meaning.

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