Progress in Colour Studies : Colour Expression and Cognition.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biggam, Carole P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and color.

Color--Psychological aspects.

Color.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2026.

Summary:

Research in colour studies with a particular focus on language. The contributions examine colour in linguistic contexts ranging from semantics and pragmatics to translation, lexicography, and discourse. Developed from papers first presented at the PICS2022 conference, this book offers fresh perspectives on colour across languages and cultures.

Contents:

Intro

Table of contents

Preface

References

Basic kala terms and the end of history

1. Introduction

2. "Visual Semantics" or "Basic Colour Terms"?

3. Doing visual semantics

3.1 Identifying visual words and expressions

3.2 Hypothesising meaning

3.3 Representing meaning

4. Case studies

5. After the End

Lightly filling the air with colour

2. Theoretical approach

3. Usage of colour construction [WITH *COLOUR]

4. Construction conceptualisation and conclusions

5. Conceptual mapping of the sense variation in the construction

6. Conclusion

Beware! Colour and emotion correspondences are rarely about feelings

1. Methodological challenges in colour and affect

1.1 Manipulating colour parameters

1.2 Manipulating colour in physical spaces

1.3 Measuring felt affective states

2. Relevant empirical studies on colour and felt affective states

2.1 Colour patches

2.1.1 Self-reported affective states

2.1.2 Manipulated affective states

2.1.3 Psychophysiologically assessed affective states

2.2 Presenting pictures of coloured spaces

2.2.1 Self-reported affective states

2.3 Changing colours in virtual reality (VR)

2.3.1 Self-reported affective states

2.3.2 Self-reported and psychophysiologically assessed affective states

2.4 Changing colours in physical rooms

2.4.1 Self-reported affective states

2.4.2 Self-reported and psychophysiologically assessed affective states

2.4.3 Psychophysiologically assessed affective states

3. Putting the evidence together

4. Conclusions and future directions

Funding

Appendix 1

Comparing the ranking of chromatic basic colour names with corresponding colour preferences in children and adults using psychophysical interval scale

1. Introduction.

2. Material and methods

2.1 Participants

2.2 Stimuli

2.3 Experimental design and procedure

2.4 Statistical analysis

3. Results

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Declaration of competing interest

Data availability statement

How similar are the colour idioms of different languages?

2. Material and methods

3. Results and discussion

3.1 Shared, transparent, and opaque idioms and their motivators

3.2 Analysis by colour term

3.2.1 Black / dark

3.2.2 White / light

3.2.3 Red

3.2.4 Grey

3.2.5 Green

3.2.6 Yellow

3.2.7 Blue

3.2.8 Purple

3.2.9 Pink

3.2.10 Brown

4. Conclusions

Appendix A. Colour idioms used in the study with their motivators

The green-blue border does not depend on the number of blues in a language

2. Method

2.1 Stimuli

2.2 Participants

2.3 Task

2.4 Analysis

Drop-red gorgeous

2. Red

3. Metonymic colour terms in marketing

4. Sex and romance

5. Conclusions and final remarks

From agriculture and politics to ecology

2. Meanings of zielony, its prototypical references and associations

3. ChronoPress

4. The use of zielony in ChronoPress texts

4.1 Uses of zielony

4.1.1 The use of zielony in names and titles

4.1.2 Other uses of zielony

4.2 Zielony used figuratively

5. The use of zielony in the Polish press of 2010 (Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego)

5.1 Statistical data

5.2 Ocurrence of zielony in names and titles

5.3 Other uses of zielony: Classes of described objects

5.4 Zielony used figuratively

6. Conclusions

Dictionaries and corpora.

Non-dictionary or corpus references

The use and meanings of the Finnish lightness words tumma 'dark' and vaalea 'light/pale'

2. Colour semantics and the concept of lightness in language

3. Data and methodology

4. Tumma and vaalea as visual expressions

4.1 Lightness words denoting contrast and lightness

4.2 Lightness words denoting colour

4.3 Between lightness and colour

5. Conclusions

The categorisation of orange in Galician

2. Fieldwork methodology

2.1 The sample

2.2 The materials

2.3 The task

3.1 Categorical distributions

3.2 Labelling

3.2.1 Color butano

3.2.2 Color tella

3.2.3 Color ladrillo

3.2.4 Other terms

3.2.5 Laranxa and cognates

Beige in Polish

2. Dictionary definitions of beż and beżowy

3. The position of beżowy in the Polish colour lexicon: Results of the elicitation list task

4. The frequency of beżowy in the National Corpus of Polish

5. The questionnaire and respondents

6. Results of the survey

6.1 Descriptions of the colour beige

6.2 The status of the colour beige

6.3 Objects which are typically beige

6.4 Free associations with beige

6.5 Attitudes to beige

7. Discussion and conclusions

Corpus and dictionaries

Non-dictionary or corpus references

Appendix

Index.

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ISBN:

90-272-4418-9

9789027244185

OCLC:

1574493199