Abstract
This article is concerned with the issue of the use of Russian metaphorical phrases that denote colors. The author considered various theories, namely the color theory by Goethe, Basic color terms by Berlin and Kay, the theory by Belov . By combining different theories together there were selected 12 basic colors. The correlation between abstract nouns and adjectives that denote colors is being studied. There is an attempt to define the connotation of every basic color. All colors are divided into colors with positive, negative and neutral connotation. The author also extracts synesthetic metaphors from all found metaphors. The study is conducted in terms of corpus research. All the examples are provided due to National Russian Corpus. In the further work the study will be concerned with synesthetic metaphors of sound and visual perception, with the classification by Max Luscher . The further work will be accompanied by setting up a unique corpora with the help of Sketch Engine tools.
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