Bachelor 2023/2024

Research Seminar “Emotions and Colour in Linguacultures”

Type: Elective course (Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication)

Area of studies: Linguistics

Delivered by: School of Foreign Languages

Where: School of Foreign Languages

When: 1 year, 3, 4 module

Mode of studies: offline

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

ECTS credits: 3

Contact hours: 26

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course “Emotions and Colour in linguacultures” is connected with the study of emotions conveyed by colour. The "world of colour" is closely connected with the world of emotional reactions. The research seminar is aimed to familiarize students with the definition “linguaculture” itself, to consider emotions as a linguistic object, peculiarities of colour and expressing emotions via colour terms in various aspects: linguistics, psychology in different linguacultures. As a part of a research seminar, it will be discussed how colour naming is being built into the mechanism of emotionality; what can determine the choice of colour naming in conveying positive/positively directed and negative/negatively directed emotions; how writers and publicists use a rich range of possibilities of colour vocabulary in their works.