COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEXTUAL USE OF COLOUR-SOUND METAPHORS IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES (BASED ON NATIONAL CORPUS OF THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE)
The article deals with the analysis of certain colour-sound preferences typical both for the English and for the Russian linguistic culture. This phenomenon is directly connected with mental component, namely with the process of perception. The cultural linguistics picture of the world, like the individual picture, is formed through perceiving the surrounding environment with the help of sensations. Such associations are reflected in the metaphorical use of some color-sound nomination and influence on the wide or narrow spreading of the metaphor. It is stated in the article, that corporal analysis allows defining the metaphorical meaning, frequency and peculiarity of the use. The research carried out proves the effectiveness of the use of the parallel corpus in exploring the colour-sound metaphors both in English and in Russian. The use of National Corpus of the Russian Language also turns out productive in finding the information about synesthetic, namely color-sound metaphors both in English and in Russian and peculiarity of their functioning, of the frequency of their use in English and Russian cultural linguistics and typical combination of color-sound nominations in both languages.