Semantic-Structural Analysis of Color-Component Idioms and Proverbs in German and Uzbek Languages

Abstract

This article presents a comprehensive semantic and structural analysis of idioms and proverbs containing color components in German and Uzbek languages. The study explores how color terms function as linguistic and cultural markers, reflecting national mentality, worldview, and symbolic cognition. By employing comparative and descriptive methods, the research identifies similarities and differences in the semantic fields of color expressions, their metaphorical extensions, and syntactic structures. The findings demonstrate that while certain color associations (e.g., white for purity, black for negativity) exhibit universality, others are deeply culture-specific. The article contributes to contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and linguoculturology by revealing how color symbolism is encoded differently across languages.