White-black color opposition and its role in linguistic interpretation

Dzagova Zalina Vladimirovna

This article discusses one of the key metaphorical binary oppositions white-black, describes the features of the construction of its semantic space, special attention is paid to the symbolic level-important for understanding complex axiological processes. Based on the data of modern dictionaries, as well as artistic, scientific and journalistic texts of the national corpus of the Russian language, the author distinguishes and characterizes the spheres of life: emotional, ethical, socio-legal and epistemological, for the interpretation of which a person uses this antonymic pair.

Keywords:axiological, symbolic, binary opposition, metaphorical.