The Peculiarities of Functioning of One-Word and Ambiguous Nominations with the Lexeme “Red” in the Russian Linguistic Worldview

The purpose of the study is to identify the specifics of the use of single-word and ambiguous nominations with the lexeme “red” in the Russian language. The tasks were solved using general scientific as well as special linguistic methods, which include component analysis, contextual analysis, and definitional analysis. The material of the work was the lexeme “red”, recorded in dictionaries of various types, and a sample of statements including single-word and ambiguous nominations with the lexeme “red” from the National Corpus of the Russian Language. As a result of the study, 13 interpretations of the red nomination in linguistic dictionaries were analyzed; the identified meanings were distributed within the semantic network; five usual meanings of nominations with the red lexeme were described.