THE INNER WORD OF A PERSON THROUGH THE SYMBOLISM OF BLACK (ON THE MATERIAL OF ENGLISH, TURKISH, AND UKRAINIAN LANGUAGES)

Abstract

The article is aimed at describing the ethnic and cultural specific features of phraseological units with the component black in a comparative aspect (on the material of the Ukrainian, Turkish, and English languages) when taking into consideration the linguistic conceptual space formed by the corresponding communicative and cultural traditions.A person who loves the color black is considered conservative. It is assumed that such people are characterized by elegance, subtlety of perception, the ability to soberly assess the situation, etc. In Western cultures, black is perceived as the color of death. In the Christian tradition, the custom of wearing black clothes to a funeral comes from the belief that this will prevent the spirit of the deceased from recognizing people and harming them. Meanwhile, Eastern culture is more tolerant of the color black: in Japan, for example, black is a symbol of age and experience, nobility.The symbolism of black is most often viewed in its most negative aspects. Black, in contrast to white, symbolizes the completion of any phenomenon, and in many cultures is usually given negative symbolic meaning, as the color of evil, sin, the devil and hell, as well as death. Most peoples have a similar attitude towards the color black. And this is not difficult to understand, because black is the color of the night, which associates it with evil. In the symbolism of black, there is a very important coding caused by fears of dark forces.Phraseological units with a black component in all three languages have a pronounced negative assessment and are associated with such concepts as "failure", "evil", "longing". Black absorbs all other colors and negatively affects a person's psyche and mood, but perhaps it is this pronounced negative energy that has become the reason that in a person's thinking, everything bad and joyless is strongly associated with black.Thus, as a result of our research, we can conclude that a feature of the semantics of the coloronym black in phraseological units of the Ukrainian, English, and Turkish languages is the absence of binary axiological opposition, because this color designation most often has a negative, negative assessment in the three languages considered in the study.