A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF PHRASEMES WITH COLOR ELEMENTS IN CROATIAN, ITALIAN AND GERMAN PHRASEOLOGY

U radu se analiziraju odabrani primjeri frazema sa sastavnicama boja u hrvatskome, talijanskome i njemačkome jeziku. Naime, boje imaju ulogu u svakodnevnome životu pa time i u jeziku u kojemu do izražaja dolazi njihov vizualni aspekt i simbolična uloga. Stoga se u radu ponajprije objašnjava podrijetlo i simbolika boja i to crvene, plave, zelene, žute i ružičaste, a zatim se provodi kontrastivna analiza. Pri tome se supostavnim pristupom analiziraju podudarnosti i razlike frazema hrvatskoga, talijanskoga i njemačkoga jezika. Također se objašnjava koliko je simbolika pojedine boje prisutna u pozadinskoj slici određenoga frazema, tj. koliko je motivirala njegovo značenje.The paper deals with the selected examples of phrasemes with color elements in the Croatian, Italian and German language. Colors have a role in everyday life and, in that respect - language, where their visual and symbolic role is evident. Therefore, the paper first explains the origins and symbolism of red, blue, green, yellow and pink, and then contrastive analysis is conducted. While doing so, correspondences and differences in the phrases of Croatian, Italian and German language are analyzed. It also explains the amount of symbolism in a particular color presented in the phraseme background, i.e. how it motivated its meaning