Question of Color Perception in Literary Work (Based on Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago)

Yulia Dyupina,Tatiana Shakirova,S Cindori,N.L Shamne,L.N Rebrina,O Larouk,E.Yu Malushko

doi:10.1051/shsconf/20185001048

Abstract

This work demonstrates the experiment on the perception and generation of the text as a part of the literary text analysis. The author was faced with a task to estimate the ability of participation of color terms in formation of art sense of the text as a whole. The emphasis is placed on the identification of expansion of color terms in their semantics when they go beyond the designation of color itself and become multidimensional and multiple-valued, taking root in such difficult structures as a metaphor, a comparison, etc. The cases of discrepancy between the choice of color words by recipients (participants of the experiment) and an author’s conception of color definitions are analyzed. The exclusiveness of an author’s colors seeing is emphasized.

Highlights

This work demonstrates the experiment on the perception and generation of the text as a part of the literary text analysis
[4] Another example the English blue in the Russian language corresponds to "синий" [blue] and "голубой" [light blue], it means that native English and Russian language carriers in this case speak of different colors which, does not disturb the process of communication in translation
The colors have been used in symbolism since the ancient times

Summary

Introduction

This work demonstrates the experiment on the perception and generation of the text as a part of the literary text analysis. The emergence of the color terms in the language (as previously mentioned in this study) has the character combinations / comparisons with color shades of events and objects that are already known to native speakers, i.e.

Results

Conclusion