Lukianets H. Colour Terms in English Internet News Discourse: Cognitive Rhetorical Aspect

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Thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (CSc)

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0416U002651

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  • 10.02.04 - Германські мови

17-06-2016

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Д 26.054.04

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This thesis focuses on the study of colour terms in English Internet News Discourse in Cognitive Rhetorical Aspect.The thesis reveals rhetorical and cognitive aspects of functioning of colour terms, which include colour units and colour phrases. Semantics of colour terms is based on two category vantages: the dominant one, showing the similarity of their meaning to the colour category, and the recessive one, revealing the similarity of meaning to the categories representing objects. The functioning of colour terms is subordinated to three rhetorical modes of influence: ethos, pathos and logos, and embodied in various semantic and structural models.

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