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An analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian
Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. urn:nbn:hr:131:397055
Tomičić, Ena
University of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English language and literature

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Tomičić, E. (2022). An analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian (Master's thesis). Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:397055

Tomičić, Ena. "An analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:397055

Tomičić, Ena. "An analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian." Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:397055

Tomičić, E. (2022). 'An analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian', Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 14 May 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:397055

Tomičić E. An analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian [Master's thesis]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2022 [cited 2024 May 14] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:397055

E. Tomičić, "An analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian", Master's thesis, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb, 2022. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:131:397055

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TitleAn analysis of colour idioms in English: a comparison with Croatian
Title (croatian)Analiza frazema s bojom kao komponentom u engleskom: usporedba s hrvatskim
AuthorEna Tomičić
MentorJanja Čulig (mentor)
Committee memberMateusz-Milan Stanojević (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberMarina Grubišić (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberJanja Čulig (član povjerenstva)
GranterUniversity of Zagreb
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English language and literature)
Zagreb
Defense date and country2022-09-20, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This master’s thesis aims to analyse those idioms in the English language that have a colour term as one of their components, and compare them to such idioms in Croatian. Colours are everywhere around us, while idioms are an element of language that is of particular interest to linguists. First, the term idiom was described, and the difference between the traditional and cognitive view on idiomatic language was presented. This was followed by a section on idiom motivation and the notion of conceptual metaphor and metonymy. Then, the concept of colour and the categorization of colour terms was described. Following that, the analysis of the idioms was conducted. The colour terms that were analysed were black/crna, white/bijela, red/crvena, blue/plava, green/zelena and yellow/žuta. The idioms were found in English and Croatian dictionaries and looked up in different English and Croatian language corpora. 63 English and 35 Croatian idioms were analysed, with most of them being culture and language specific. While some conceptual metaphors, such as PESSIMISM IS BLACK, were found to be common to both languages, others, such as SADNESS IS BLUE, were specific to only one language.
Keywords
Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:131:397055
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Linguistics, Literature and Culture, Translation, TEFL
Course: Linguistics
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Type of resourceText
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