Сolour terms in the Russian short stories of the early XX and XXI centuries: a corpus study
... differences due to the author’s personality, historical context, and literary form. Thus, considerable divergence is shown to exist in the individual writers’ preferences for the particular colour terms. However, the differences come down to a unified rank distribution in a sample from the Russian Short Story Corpus 1900—1930, containing stories by a few hundred authors. While not affecting the intra-group rankings of colour terms, the turbulent historical events seem to have spurred their ipm index....
