FUNCTIONAL-SEMANTIC FEATURES OF COLOR NAMES IN FRENCH SONGS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY

Abstract

The article attempts to consider the song discourse from the point of view of expressing in it the symbolic world of man. The basic is opinion that a song is a special way of expressing culture, it is not only a certain aesthetic, emotional and moral interpretation of the multidimensionality of the surrounding reality, but also a means of artistic expression of a person’s inner world. The basis for creating imagery in the text of songs is the use of symbols formed on the basis of national and cultural traditions, which include linguistic units for the designation of color. The main object of the work is a detailed study of the color names used in French lyrical songs of the second half of the 20th century, from a functional-semantic point of view. The main tasks are the analysis of the functional and semantic features of song discourse from a linguistic and cultural point of view, the implementation of a detailed analysis of the use of color names in French lyrical songs of the second half of the 20th century, through the prism of their expression of denotative and connotative meaning. The research material was six French adjectives for the color bleu, blanc, gris, noir, rose and rouge, used in French lyrical songs of the second half of the 20th century. A detailed study of the color names showed that all of them function with both a direct and a figurative meaning, expressing a positive and/or negative attitude towards the object of the nomination. The positive connotation is expressed mainly by such units as bleu, blanc, rose, rouge, while the negative one is conveyed by the adjectives gris and noir. Predominance of positive connotation indicates the general positive psycho-emotional state, positive feelings and emotions of the author of the song and the artist who chose it. Taking into account the close connection between language and thinking, the study of song material allows us to establish the images that appear in the minds of representatives of the French-speaking society, the specifics of their perception and attitude to the environment, various aspects of life, the peculiarities of the national vision of reality, the figurative understanding of the "picture of the world".