Language and culture / edited by Carole P. Biggam, Christian J. Kay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biggam, C. P. (Carole Patricia), 1946-

Kay, Christian.

Series:

Progress in colour studies ; I

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Terminology.

Color.

Colors, Words for.

Language and culture.

Color--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

x, 223 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Progress in Colour Studies I

Title page

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Table of Contents

PREFACE

DR ROBERT E. MACLAURY 1944-2004. AN APPRECIATION

ABBREVIATIONS

Section 1: Theoretical and methodological approaches

THE SEMANTICS OF COLOUR: A NEW PARADIGM

A GRAMMATICAL NETWORK OF TZOTZIL-MAYAN COLOUR TERMS

QUANTITATIVE LINGUISTICS IN THE STUDY OF COLOUR TERMINOLOGY: A RESEARCH REPORT

BASIC COLOUR TERMS AND TYPE MODIFICATION: MEANING IN RELATION TO FUNCTION, SALIENCE AND CORRELATING ATTRIBUTES

BEYOND COLOUR: MODELLING LANGUAGE IN COLOUR-LIKE WAYS

THE NORMATIVITY OF COLOUR

Section 2: Modern Languages

AGE-RELATED DIFFERENCES IN THE BASIC COLOUR VOCABULARY OF FRENCH

TOWARDS A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF THE SEMANTIC FIELD OF COLOUR IN EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE

EVOLVING SECONDARY COLOURS: EVIDENCE FROM SORBIAN

COLOUR TERMS IN NOVA SCOTIA

Section 3: Historical approaches

POLITICAL UPHEAVAL AND A DISTURBANCE IN THE COLOUR VOCABULARY OF EARLY ENGLISH

COLOURS OF THE LANDSCAPE: OLD ENGLISH COLOUR TERMS IN PLACE-NAMES

THE MEDIEVAL GAZE AT GRIPS WITH A MEDIEVAL WORLD

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-15515-6

9786612155154

90-272-9303-1

OCLC:

781312791