Black on White – Fehéren feketén. The Semantic Dimensions of the Colors Black and White in Slovene and Hungarian Phraseology

Abstract

The article presents the semantic implications of the colours black and white in Slovene and Hungarian phraseology from a cognitive aspect, the symbolic and metaphoric role of the black and white colour in the conceptualization of abstract domains and their language (praseological) realization. Symbols and metaphors arenʹt linguistic signs, but also the components of mental processes, which are more or less universal and this fact is being reflected in the high level of convergence between the phraseological units containing colours in the observed languages.