COMPARATIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF LEXICAL COLORATIVES AS MARKERS OF MIMICITY OF CHARACTERS IN RUSSIAN AND VIETNAMESE ARTISTIC SPEECH

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to determine the role of coloratives in revealing the emotional behavior of characters in F. M. Dostoevsky’s novels «The Idiot» and M. Gorkyʼs «Mother». These texts widely present a variety of emotional situations, describe verbal and non-verbal emotional behavior of a person, means and ways of communicating emotions with the help of coloratives in the description of facial expressions of characters. The object of study is facial coloratives, with the help of which the authors express certain emotional reactions of the characters in the original Russian texts of the mentioned novels, and the translators of these novels into Vietnamese are the Vietnamese counterparts of such coloratives. The subject of the research is the common features and peculiarities of conveying the emotional state of artistic characters in Russian and Vietnamese linguоcultures using facial coloratives. The methods of comparative, semantic cognitive, linguоcultural analysis, paraverbal analysis, descriptive method are applied. The result of the textual analysis was the discovery of 11 color tokens, which name the main parts of the color spectrum of the facial skin in situations where the author conveys the emotional state or emotional reactions of the characters. Conclusions: coloratives that represent a person’s face make it possible to convey a lot of information about his emotions, mental state, feelings, and state of health. Most facial coloratives are equivalent for Russian and Vietnamese, although there are also nonequivalent ones.