Colouring in Nikolay Gaybshev’s stories

The article is devoted to the linguistic description of the colour picture of the world in the prose of the Yakut writer Nikolay Gabyshev. The study is aimed at identifying the key colours in the original text, as well as at a descriptive analysis of the translation of passages with colours. The main object is selected stories from the book "Suүs kepseen" (100 Hundred Stories), published in 1982 by the Yakut book publishing house; translations of texts prepared by S. Ivanov, V. Popov, T. Rezvova in the 1970-80s. Achromatic absolute colorus predominate in the stories: ürüƞ/maƞan ‘white’, khara ‘black’, chromatic colours are used with the least frequency: küökh ‘sky blue, blue’, araҕas ‘yellow’, kyһyl ‘red’. An interesting fact is when the writer skillfully uses tint colours of white and black. It is important to note that in the Yakut language achromatic colour names ürüƞ/maƞan and khara have many spectral shades that are transmitted in speech in an analytical way of word formation by comparison to a certain phenomenon or object. For example: muus maƞan ‘ice-white’, khaar maƞan ‘snow-white’, tuus maƞan ‘white as salt’, ürümechchi maƞan ‘white as a butterfly’, sya maƞan ‘white as fat’. The colourative “white” in the Yakut language is conveyed in two words: ürüƞ/maƞan. These are equal synonyms. And under the colourative küökh one can understand two different colors: sky blue, blue, and green. They can be distinguished only on the basis of the context or a word adjacent to it: khallaan küöҕe (lit. ‘colour of the sky’) means ‘sky blue, blue’; ot küöҕe (lit. ‘colour of the grass’) – ‘green’. The method of descriptive linguistic analysis is used in the work. Thus, coloratives have their own ethnic and cultural specificity, which is closely intertwined with the linguistic picture of this ethnic group. The paper uses the method of descriptive linguistic analysis of the texts of the original and translation in a comparative aspect. With the help of colourifiers, the writer created vivid pictures of the northern landscape, as well as typical, but at the same time bright original images of Soviet people from the times of labor socialism.

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