Anthropology of color : interdisciplinary multilevel modeling / edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei, Don Dedrick.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

MacLaury, Robert E., 1944-

Paramei, Galina V.

Dedrick, Don.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Terminology.

Color.

Colors, Words for.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

xx, 485 p. : ill., map.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, semiotics, and a variety of other fields, by promoting the exploration of the different but interacting and complementary ways in which these various perspectives model the domain of color experience. By so doing, they significantly promote the emergence of a coherent field of the anthropology of color.

Contents:

Color naming research in its many forms and guises / Don Dedrick and Galina V. Paramei

Hue categorization and color naming / Marc H. Bornstein

Individual and population differences in focal colors / Michael A. Webster and Paul Kay

Russian color names / Olga V. Safuanova and Nina N. Korzh

Russian 'blues' / Galina V. Paramei

Color term research of Hugo Magnus / Roger Schöntag and Barbara Schäfer-Priess

Categories of desaturated-complex color / Robert E. MacLaury

Relative basicness of color terms / Seija Kerttula

The ambiguity of brightness (with special reference to Old English) and a new model for color description in semantics / Carole P. Biggam

Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages / Vilja Oja

Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic / Wolfgang Schenkel

Basic color term evolution in light of ancient evidence from the Near East / David A. Warburton

Basic color terms from proto-Semitic to old Ethiopic / Maria Bulakh

Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic / Alexander Borg

Japanese color terms, from 400 CE to the present / James M. Stanlaw

Color terms in Colonia Tovar, an Almannisch enclave in Venezuela / Albert C. Heinrich

Mien (Yao) color terms / Theraphan Luangthongkum

The semiosis of Swedish car color names / Gunnar Bergh

Colors and emotions in English / Anders Steinvall

Linguistic construal of colors / Ekaterina V. Rakhilina

Color words in painting descriptions / Elena V. Anishchenko

Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives / Brent D. Galloway

Prototypical and stereotypical color in Slavic languages / Lyudmila Popovic

Relative basicness of color terms / Dessislava Stoeva-Holm

To have color and to have no color / Irena Vankova

Gender, age, and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures / Liudmila V. Samarina

Towards a new topology of colour / Barbara Saunders.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9786612152368

9781282152366

128215236X

9789027291707

9027291705

OCLC:

237386069

Publisher Number:

10.1075/z.137

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access