КОЛОРАТИВНАЯ ЛЕКСИКА В РОМАНЕ И. С. ШМЕЛЕВА «ПУТИ НЕБЕСНЫЕ»

Abstract

The article analyzes adjectives with the meaning "color" in the novel The Ways of Heaven by I.S. Shmelev. Despite the attention of modern researchers to the last work of the writer, the language of this novel has not been studied enough yet. The subject of the research is lexemes with the meaning «color», from the point of view of their functionality and semantic content. The purpose of the article is to determine the main ways of creating the world view of colors in the literary space of the novel The Ways of Heaven. Researchers pay attention to the fact, that the vocabulary of colors is highly frequent and polysemic and becomes a symbolic feature of the author's individual style especially in I.S. Shmelev’s last work. Along with the main colors, mixed colors also play an important role. They are presented in the text by compound names that include two colors and are formed by combining word stems and a whole word, paired nominations consisting of names of the main color and its shade. To describe the events taking place in the text of the novel, I.S. Shmelev uses lexemes, in which the semantic ele-ment «light» can be traced. It is shown that the words denoting colors in the novel The Ways of Heaven have a num-ber of functions in the structure of the text : 1) nominative: taking part in creating the real plan, everyday space of the novel; 2) emotional-evaluative: lexemes of this group convey the inner struggle of the characters, their attitude to the current events; 3) psychological: reveals spiritual torment of the characters, their reflections; 4) religious-axiological: reflects the author's religious ideas about the world..