Colour idioms in English, German, Russian.

      Аннотация: The present research is aimed at conducting an analysis of idioms with headwords denoting colour terms in English, German and Russian. The object of the research is the phraseological stock of the languages, and the subject – discrepancies in emotional colouring of the idioms among the languages. The analysis of idioms created for this research is based on the semantic criteria with the stress on the type of attitude, conveyed by the idiomatic expressions and makes use of the descriptive and comparative methods.

Ключевые слова: phraseological units, Semantic Analysis, color idioms, interpretation of colors, phraseological stock, degree of correspondence, negative/positive polarity, types of equivalence