Concept Color Name Yellow in the Artistic Worldview of V. Lichutin: Variety of Senses.

Abstract

The article considers the algorithm of sense generation through modeling mental spaces of metaphorically reinterpreted color names in the artistic discourse of V. Lichutin. The purpose of the study is to describe the nominative relations of the concept-color name yellow and to identify its additional senses in the artistic worldview of the contemporary writer V. Lichutin. The study was conducted using the methods of conceptual analysis, conceptual modeling, contextual analysis. In the course of the analysis, seven figurative-symbolic and emotional-evaluative meanings of the concept-color yellow were identified and described: “lower world and evil spirits”, “alien”, “indecency of behavior”, “unattractiveness”, “illness”, “old age”, “death”, thus, the concept does not only participate in the coloristic description of the surrounding world, but also becomes a symbol of evil spirits, physical and mental illnesses, actualizes the motive of the frailty of everything on earth, serves as a way of recognizing the “alien” among “our own kind”, a marker of indecency of behavior in society, as well as a means of creating negative characteristics of literary characters.