COLORISTIC PORTRAITIZATION OF CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL “SHINING CLOUDS” BY K. PAUSTOVSKY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SOMATIC AND VESTIAL CODE) Cover Image

КОЛОРИСТИЧЕСКАЯ ПОРТРЕТИЗАЦИЯ ПЕРСОНАЖЕЙ РОМАНА „БЛИСТАЮЩИЕ ОБЛАКА“ К. Г. ПАУСТОВСКОГО (НА ПРИМЕРЕ СОМАТИЧЕСКОГО И ВЕСТИАЛЬНОГО КОДА)
COLORISTIC PORTRAITIZATION OF CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL “SHINING CLOUDS” BY K. PAUSTOVSKY (ON THE EXAMPLE OF SOMATIC AND VESTIAL CODE)

Author(s): Tatyana Viktorovna Sivova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Studies of Literature, Lexis, Russian Literature, Philology
Published by: ЮГОЗАПАДЕН УНИВЕРСИТЕТ »НЕОФИТ РИЛСКИ«
Keywords: linguistics of color; color term; somatism; vestonym; linguistic picture of the world; individual writing style; K. Paustovsky

Summary/Abstract: The article, which deals with the novel “Shining Clouds” by K.G. Paustovsky, reveals the individual author’s specificity of coloristic perception and visualization of the character’s space, which is significant for K. Paustovsky’s romantic worldview. As the coloristic portrait of the characters in the novel is created mainly on the basis of somatic and vestial descriptions, the specificity of the author’s coloristic explication of the somatic and vestial space of the novel is subsequently presented. The main results of the research are 1) a list of somatisms and vestonyms functioning in the novel is provided, as well as the number of their word usage; 2) a list of somatisms and vestonyms correlating with the terms of color is compiled; 3) the color range used by the writer to create somatic and vestial descriptions is defined; 4) the dominance of the somatisms face, eyes, hair in the coloristic representation of the somatic code is established; 5) the specifics of their individual author’s coloristic visualization and their functional potential is described; 6) the color dominant of the vestial code is found and its functionality is revealed; 7) the unique features of K. Paustovsky’s color style of writing, identified in the coloristic visualization of the somatic and vestial space of the novel, are described; 8) the conclusion about the significance of characters’ color portraits for the reconstruction of the writer’s linguistic picture of the world is drawn.

  • Issue Year: 19/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 124-135
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Russian