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ABSTRACT
This article gives a broad opinion about the color component word combinations and talks about their specific aspects,
psychological, socio-political features, and their use in speech acts. Also, the article presents a pragmatic analysis of
word combinations which are expressed with the same and different color components in different languages. The
analysis is enriched with examples in English and Uzbek languages.
KEYWORDS
Color, psychology, mentality, cultural life, speech act, pragmatics, pragma linguistics, discourse, cultural difference.
INTRODUCTION
Observing existence, we are surprised to see that the
world around us consists of different colors. How much
meaning lies in these colors? Why are these colors
named so? Why is yellow not called red, or vice versa?
Although at first the spiritual aspects of colors were
studied by sciences, such as philosophy, psychology,
pedagogy, now the etymology of colors, the history of
origin, aspects of connection with national culture are
not yet fully opened topics for the field of linguistics.
Our ancestors were fascinated by this mysterious
Research Article
A PRAGMATIC STUDY OF WORD COMBINATIONS WITH COLOR
COMPONENTS
Submission Date:
August 21, 2024,
Accepted Date:
August 26, 2024,
Published Date:
August 31, 2024
Crossref doi
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To‘lanova Sayyoraxon Farxodjon qizi
Ingliz tili fani o’qituvchisi, Farg'ona tumani
5-sonli umumta'lim maktabi, Uzbekistan
Ganiyeva Dildoraxon Azizovna
Filologiya fanlari doktori, dotsent, Farg'ona davlat Universiteti o‘qituvchisi
, Uzbekistan
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world of nature and studied it for centuries. Each color
means a different world. "Why is nature made green?
What is the reason for this? If nature is red or yellow,
what would it mean? What colors raise a person's
mood? Which one has a negative or positive effect? Can
you determine the health of people or animals by their
colors? If such questions concern the sciences of logic,
philosophy, psychology, the history of creation,
meaning, etymology of these words and why they have
this form is a very interesting and often puzzling
phenomenon for the science of linguistics. And in order
to determine this, our linguists and scientists have
been conducting scientific research and experiments
at a certain level for years. Currently, even in some
developed countries, special color institutes and
scientific laboratories are working effectively in this
regard. In this place, it is possible to highlight the
world-famous color institute in Tokyo, Japan. Major
scientists use color to "communicate" in a symbolic
sense, to treat and educate people by means of colors,
to think philosophically through colors, to understand
the inner world of people through colors, as well as to
increase the agricultural productivity of colors, in the
economy and researches are being conducted about
its position in the positive solution of other issues.
METHOD
The linguistic basis of the formation of color names is a
topic that studies the complex relationship between
language and perception. As colors play a crucial role
in our daily lives, they directly influence our emotions,
preferences and even our behavior. The way we
perceive and categorize colors is inextricably linked to
the language we use to describe them.
A person perceives nature and the world around them
in color connects people with subjective judgments
about the state of things, creates new objects, gives
them not only form, but also color qualities. As a
cultural constant is subjectivized and provided with
national-cultural values, color serves development.
"Color signs are included in the human linguistic
representation of the world, which is realized in verbal
devices, lexemes, phrases and phraseological units” .
Linguistic research on color terms includes the
following directions: study of modern languages at
different levels of development; cultural aspect, the
connection of color with culture; psychological
properties of color; lexical-semantic color features;
study of ethnolinguistic bases of color; learning the
language of color symbols; the connection between
color and sound, color and sound associations; learning
color concepts.
In linguistics, color is expressed in the so-called color
dictionary, i.e. color terms and color names describing
color types.
Languages around the world vary in the number and
specificity of color terms they use. Some languages,
such as English, have relatively many color terms, while
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others, such as the Dani language of New Guinea, have
only two primary color terms: mili (dark) and mola
(light). This variation reflects cultural differences in
how colors are perceived and classified.
RESULT AND ANALYSIS
The evolution of color names can also be influenced by
social factors such as gender trends, technological
advances, and cultural symbolism. For example, pink
was originally considered a shade of red in Western
cultures, but later it became associated with femininity
and is now recognized as a color of its own.
In addition to physical and cultural origins, color names
can be influenced by language processes such as
metaphor and metonymy. Metaphorical extensions of
color terms such as "feeling blue" or "seeing red"
emphasize the emotional meanings that colors can
carry. Metonymic extensions, on the other hand, use a
color term to refer to something associated with that
color, such as "blue" for money or "red" for danger.
In general, the formation of color names is a complex
interaction of biology, culture, and language. By
studying how colors are named and classified in
different languages and cultures, researchers can gain
insight into how we perceive and conceptualize the
world around us.
In world linguistics, color theory and symbolism have
been studied in historical aspect. Cognitive information
related to color in the linguistic mind, mental lexicon,
cultural signs were analyzed based on a synchronic
approach in a comparative, cross-sectional aspect.
Concepts related to color in different languages,
national-cultural relations are covered on a conceptual
basis. The relationship with the human factor, which is
considered the main issue of the anthropocentrism
direction, requires the analysis of the semantics of
colors from an etymological point of view, the
interpretation of the formation process of new
concepts, the analysis of the meaning possibilities,
cognitive properties, and pragmatic value based on
traditional
methods
and
modern
computer
technologies. In world linguistics, the mythological
worldview related to colors, universal and specific
signs of color semiotics, meaning aspects of lexemes
denoting color, and linguo-poetic features have been
studied.
The semantics of lexemes denoting color is
distinguished by its wide scope, conceptual diversity,
formation of associative field, reflection of cognitive
knowledge, pragmatic meaning and psycholinguistic
approach. The study of the semantics of lexemes
denoting color is important in illuminating the linguistic
landscape of the world, in analyzing the mental
characteristics of the language, the cognitive bases of
understanding concepts, and in explaining the
historical linguistic processes in lexeme semantics.
From this point of view, the analysis of the semantics,
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etymology and pragmatic features of color symbolism
and color-related lexical units, which play an important
role in the interpretation of cultural relations, is of
urgent importance. Independence made it possible to
establish the historical roots of the Uzbek language,
research its ancient sources, and compare the
development of the Uzbek language with genetically
related languages. At the current stage of
development, the role of lexemes denoting color in
human life, the semantic processes related to color,
the study of the functional aspects of color semantics
in proverbs, phrases, wise words, and artistic texts are
important in elucidating the accumulative, emotional-
expressive properties of language units in addition to
communication.
Color component words can have a different meaning
when analyzed alone, and a completely different
meaning when analyzed pragmatically. Of course, this
aspect is closely related to the culture and traditions of
a country. Because an expression that is in active use in
one country may be completely foreign to another
country. For example, let's analyze the phrase "black
sheep". In the sentence "I have ten black sheep", the
expression "black sheep" does not express a figurative
meaning. It is only indicated that the color of the sheep
is black. However, in the following sentence: "Rachel is
the black sheep in the family because she is an artist
whereas everyone else is an economist", this phrase
deviates from the meaning of color and expresses a
collocational meaning. The collocational meaning of
the phrase "Black sheep" is as follows: it is used when
describing someone who acts differently than the
expected norm. It's usually used in conjunction with
"family" as in he's the black sheep of the family. But in
the Uzbek language, this phrase is not exactly
translated, but replaced by another idiomatic unit,
because there is no such figurative unit in the Uzbek
mentality. In the Uzbek language, the expression
“guruchning kurmagi” (rice paddy) is mainly used to
express this meaning. For example, Guruchning
kurmagi bor, yomonning to`g`mog`i bor, this proverb
means that everything has a negative side.
Besides, there are some other idioms related to color
that are different in Uzbek and English languages.
Red-handed (qizil qo’lli)
Qo’li egri (wrong hand)
Green with envy
(hasaddan kulrang rangga
kirmoq)
Hasaddan yonmoq (to to be on
fire because of envy)
Yellow-bellied (sariq
Quyonyurak (rabbithearted)
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qorinli)
Blue mood (ko’k
kayfiyat)
Kayfiyati tushkun (in a bad
mood)
White lie (oq yolg’on)
Arzimas yolg’on (unimportant
lie)
Green planet (yashil
sayyora)
Ona tabiat, ona zamin (mother
nature)
Blue collar worker (ko’k
yoqali ishchilar)
Qora ishchi (black collar)
Grey area (kulrang hudud)
Qizil hudud (red area)
However, even though culture and traditions differ
from each other, some idioms related to the colour are
expressed similarly in different languages.
White wedding
Oq to’y
Red in the face
Yuzi uyatdan qizardi
Black market
Qora bozor
Yellow journalism
Sariq matbuot
CONCLUSION
To sum up, color has a special role in linguistics,
because word phrases, idioms with a color component
can be interpreted differently in different languages
although those colours are seen and perceived
similarly in the world. In the analysis of color
component word phrases we relied on modern
directions of linguistics such as pragmatics and
discourse. And we must not forget that the word
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combinations related to colors are closely related to
the lifestyle and cultural life of a nation.
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