Igor O. Guryanov, Alina E. Rakhimova, Alisa Rudnick
The article deals with description of versatile characteristic of color descriptions of idioms and sociocultural aspect of their use in German discourse. The idioms under research were taken from idiomatic, stylistic and explanatory dictionaries of the German language. The method of investigation is complex study of German idioms containing color designations in their sociocultural aspects that includes etymological, semantic and cultural analysis. The aim of research is to describe various forms of representation of color meanings in German idiomatic layer and correct use of such idioms in discourse. We outlined 221 units from German dictionaries with the following components: red, green, blue, grey, black and white. Idioms were analyzed with the use of etymological analysis, component analysis and socio-cultural analysis. The socio-cultural aspect of idioms with coloristic component relates to the subjective evaluation of color symbolism, differences in associative perception of the surrounding world, differences in the combining abilities of word-components of idiomatic units and many extra linguistic factors.
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