Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and cultureCarole P. Biggam, Christian J. Kay Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled Progress in Colour Studies which was held in the University of Glasgow, U.K. The contributions to this first volume, which is principally linguistic and anthropological in content, and to its companion on the psychological aspects of colour, present either summaries of state-of-the-art colour research in various disciplines, or in-depth accounts of certain aspects of such work. This volume includes approaches such as Natural Semantic Metalanguage, social network analysis, quantitative analysis, type modification, vantage theory, the centrality of social norms of inference, place-names and heraldry. In the process, new insights are offered into the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Sorbian, Burarra, Cape Breton Gaelic, Tzotzil, and others. |
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Anglo-Norman appears bàn basic colour categories basic colour terms basic terms Berlin and Kay Biggam bleu blood blue blue spruce bluet brown brūn Burarra Cambridge century cloth cognitive Cognitive Linguistics colour domain colour space colour systems colour words concept context corpora corpus correlation Culture dark denote derived categories described Dictionary dominant European Portuguese evidence example field of colour Figure fire French frequency glas gorm grēne green place grey gris gungaltja hæwen Hanunóo hwīt dairy produce hwīt white hypothesis languages Latin lexemes lexical light linguistic Lower Sorbian MacLaury Maffi marron Martu Wangka meaning medieval Middle English object Old English orange Oxford Paul Kay perception pink piros Portuguese Portuguese language property terms purple reference ruadh Rusthall salience semantic field sense speakers specific Steinvall suffix texts tiles Tsakhur type modification Tzotzil University Press Upper Sorbian Vantage Theory visual descriptors vörös weavers Wierzbicka yellow