Linguistic, Psychological and Theological Interpretation of “White” Colour (in the example of the French and Uzbek languages)

Abstract

This article provides a comparative analysis of the symbolic and categorical meanings of "white" in terms of linguistics, psychology and theology in "colour linguistics". In particular, the interpretation of "white colour" in the context of these three criteria has been studied comparatively on the basis of nonrelated languages, such as French and Uzbek phraseological units, linguistic meanings, symbolic concepts in psychological views and religious meanings in the holy book of Islam - the Koran. Accordingly, a detailed analysis of the expression of "white" in French and Uzbek phraseology in positive, negative and neutral meanings has been explained the situations in various spheres of social life and the manifestation of individual traits and disorder. As a result, the features of the correspondence between the semantic nuances of the "white colour" in linguistic, psychological and religious views are taken into account.