Funkcje barw w językowej kreacji świata Izabeli Łęckiej w Lalce Bolesława Prusa

In creating the fi ctional world of the protagonist of The Doll, Bolesław Prus used a range of basic terminology concerning colours and chiaroscuro. The text provides those terms in the form of mainly adjectives, nouns and verbs, rarely participles, which directly or indirectly describe the colour or its shade. Stylistically speaking, the author of the novel used epithets and a few conventional colour similies. Lexical and stylistic indicators which name colours in the creation of Izabela’s character are chosen mostly on the basis of probability and their primary function is to make the portrait of the character more real and credible (the descriptive and expressive function of colours).