СOLOR NAMES IN TRAVEL REPORTS BY A. ANDERSСH AND THEIR STYLISTIC FUNCTIONS IN THE TEXT

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of lexical-semantic group of words denoting color, the investigation of which is based on travel reports of a famous German writer Alfred Andersch, the collections of his reports «Wanderungen im Norden» and «Hohe Breitengrade» in particular. The focus is on the research of stylistic functions of color names in the text of travel reports, one of the main objectives of which is to truly reflect the surrounding reality, the description of nature in particular. It has also been proved that about half of color names used by the author in the works, is simple adjectives by structure denoting such basic colors as «white», «black», «gray», which are achromatic colors; in order to describe the beauty of northern nature the author also applies simple adjectives expressing «blue» and «green». A greet number of color names is complex adjectives by structure expressing both chromatic and achromatic colors. Only a small part is derivative adjectives-color names.