Overview

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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Author:   Carole P. Biggam (University of Glasgow) ,  Christian Kay (University of Glasgow)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Weight:   0.555kg
ISBN:  

9789027232397

ISBN 10:   9027232393
Pages:   223
Publication Date:   30 November 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Preface; 2. Dr Robert E. MacLaury 1944-2004: An Appreciation (by MacKeigan, Terri); 3. Abbreviations; 4. Section 1: Theoretical and methodological approaches; 5. The semantics of colour: A new paradigm (by Wierzbicka, Anna); 6. A grammatical network of Tzotzil-Mayan colour terms (by MacKeigan, Terri); 7. Quantitative linguistics in the study of colour terminology: A research report (by Pawlowski, Adam); 8. Basic colour terms and type modification: Meaning in relation to function, salience and correlating attributes (by Steinvall, Anders); 9. Beyond colour: Modelling language in colour-like ways (by Glaz, Adam); 10. The normativity of colour (by Saunders, Barbara); 11. Section 2: Modern languages; 12. Age-related differences in the basic colour vocabulary of French (by Forbes, Isabel); 13. Towards a general description of the semantic field of colour in European Portuguese (by Correia, Margarita); 14. Evolving secondary colours: Evidence from Sorbian (by Hippisley, Andrew); 15. Colour terms in Nova Scotia (by Lazar-Meyn, Heidi Ann); 16. Section 3: Historical approaches; 17. Political upheaval and a disturbance in the colour vocabulary of Early English (by Biggam, Carole P.); 18. Colours of the landscape: Old English colour terms in place-names (by Hough, Carole); 19. The medieval gaze at grips with a medieval world (by Huxtable, Michael J.); 20. Index

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Progress in Colour Studies brings together contributions on a broad range of topics, from cognitive and linguistic theories of colour to analyses of usage in medieval and contemporary settings. The volume is particularly valuable for its varied theoretical perspectives and for studies of colour term systems that are undergoing significant change. -- John Baines, 2006

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