Keyword: «pejorative»

The article analyzes the semantics of black nominations in the linguistic and paremiological systems of the Yakut and other Turkic languages. Black nominations, acting as a definition for pejorative words in phraseological units, serve as a means of intensifying negative evaluativeness, as well as expressiveness of expression. A positive or negative assessment of phraseological units with a component named for the color is actualized not only explicitly, but also through the lexical-semantic opposition of words denoting achromatic colors. An important role in the mechanism and process of acquiring the estimated value of phraseological units is also played by the cultural connotations of the name of the color.