This study investigates how the concept of sound is represented in the Russian language through a corpus-driven analysis of adjective + noun collocations with the lexeme звук (sound). Drawing on data from the Russian National Corpus (RNC), the research aims to identify both primary naming patterns, which directly describe the objective properties of sound, and secondary naming patterns, which extend these descriptions by referring to different sensory and conceptual domains. Special attention is paid to synesthetic metaphors, which reveal how the sensory domain of sound interacts with other sensory domains, such as vision, touch, smell and taste. The findings indicate that the majority of collocations fall into the category of secondary naming patterns, demonstrating that sound in Russian is frequently described using non-auditory attributes. The Color → Sound model emerges as the dominant synesthetic mapping, followed by Touch → Sound and Taste → Sound. By focusing on the lexeme звук, this study contributes to the field of sensory linguistics, offering insights into the cognitive and cultural conceptualization of sound in Russian. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of corpus-driven approach for the systematic analysis of sensory lexicon, providing a road-map that is applicable to foreign language teaching and translation training by revealing subtle semantic shifts and extensions in collocations with the lexeme звук.
Olena KOZAN (Wed,) studied this question.