The functional and semantic transformation of the lexical unit “white” in the prose of V.M. Shukshin

The article deals with the analysis of the semantic volume of the color name “white” and its derived words in the texts of the stories of V.M. Shukshin from the position of the functional and semantic approach, there are characterized their expressive and aesthetic connotations. There is revealed that the representations of the color name “white” are connected with its semantic ambivalent nature and defined by the theme and problems of the prose of V.M. Shukshin, the specific features of the author’s style and world perception.