German colour terms : study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present / William Jervis Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, William Jervis, 1941-

Series:

Studies in the History of the Language Sciences

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, 0304-0720 ; v. 119

Studies in the History of the Language Sciences ; 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Color--Terminology.

Color.

Colors, Words for.

German language--History.

German language.

German language--Adjective.

Color words.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (677 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; /Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words from early beginnings to the present, based on data obtained from over one thousand texts.Part 1 reviews previous work in colour linguistics. Part 2 describes and documents the formation of popular colour taxonomies and specialised nomenclatures in German across many periods and fields. The textual data examined will be of relevance to cultural historians in fields as far apart as philosophy, religious symbolism, medicine, mineralogy, optics, fine art, fashion, and dyeing technology.Pa

Contents:

pt. 1. Colour linguistics from a German perspective

pt. 2. Cultural aspects of colour naming and inventorisation in German

3. Linguistic aspects of German colour lexis.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027272027

9027272026

OCLC:

847948276