| Sažetak | 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. |
