Abstract
The article examines the English phraseological units with a component - colour term. Relevance of the research is conditioned by the fact that visual perception and phraseological figurativeness play the key role in the process of linguistic worldview formation. The research objective is to develop a cognitive-semantic classification of the phraseological units under study and to identify the means of their concepts verbalization taking into account the etymological aspect. The authors propose a cognitive-semantic classification of colour phraseological units, identify their cognitive metaphorical models, which constitutes scientific originality of the study. The research findings are as follows: 320 metaphorical phraseological units are classified into 30 semantic categories, their cognitive models are identified and semantic motivation is revealed.
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