RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsRUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics2313-22992411-1236Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)7592Research ArticleColour Terms as Culture Codes. Colour Terms Corpora in Russian, English and FrenchNovikovF NForeign Languages Department Philological Facultyphilologos@mail.ruPeoples’ Friendship University of Russia15032014313013808092016Copyright © 2014, Novikov F.N.2014The article treats the problem of lexical corpus analysis of colour terms in Russian, English and French in connection with the topic of cultural codes. The multidimensional nature of colour terms as elements of the lexical system is demonstrated with the fact that they represent special microsystems which are valuable to studies of intrasystem connections in the lexical sphere of the language, as well as studies of culture and history.semanticscolour termculture codecorpusсемантикацветообозначениекультурный кодлексический массив