Colour and Language

Colour and Language
Author: Siegfried Wyler
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1992
Genre: Color
ISBN: 9783823342199

The Semantics of Colour

The Semantics of Colour
Author: C. P. Biggam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1107377706

Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from modern and historical languages from around the world. These include discussions of Icelandic horses, Peruvian guinea-pigs, medieval roses, the colour yellow in Stuart England, and Polynesian children's colour terms. Major techniques used in colour research are presented and discussed, such as the evolutionary sequence, Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Vantage Theory. The book also addresses whether we can understand the colour systems of the past, including prehistory, by combining various semantic techniques currently used in both modern and historical colour research with archaeological and environmental information.

Basic Color Terms

Basic Color Terms
Author: Brent Berlin
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1991
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520076358

Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.

Color-terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome

Color-terms in Social and Cultural Context in Ancient Rome
Author: Rachael Goldman
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2013
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781611439144

Romans attached nuanced implications to color-terms which went beyond their literal meaning, using these terms as a form of cultural assessment, defining their social values and order. By analyzing the use and color words in specific contexts, we can gain greater insight into the Roman mind.

The Semantics of Colour

The Semantics of Colour
Author: C. P. Biggam
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0521899923

This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

Color Language and Color Categorization

Color Language and Color Categorization
Author: Jonathan Brindle
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 446
Release: 2016-08-17
Genre:
ISBN: 1443898155

This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has been a topic of focus for researchers for decades, the contributions here show that many aspects of color language and categorization are as yet unexplored, and that current theories and methodologies which investigate color language are still evolving. Some core questions addressed here include: How is color conceptualized through language? What kind of linguistic tools do languages use to describe color? Which factors tend to bias color language? What methodologies could be used to understand human color categorization and language better? How do color vocabularies evolve? How does context impact the color cognition? The chapters collected here adopt different theoretical and methodological approaches in describing new empirical research on how the concept of color is represented in a variety of different languages. Researchers in linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science present a set of new explorations and challenges in the area of color language. The book promotes several methodological and disciplinary dimensions to color studies. The color category is given an in-depth and broad-based examination, so a reader interested in color conceptualization for itself will be able to form a solid vision of the subject.

German Colour Terms

German Colour Terms
Author: William Jervis Jones
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 679
Release: 2013-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027272026

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. Part 3 — the core of the work — traces linguistic developments in systematic detail across more than twelve centuries. Special attention is given to the evolving meanings of colour terms, their connotative values, figurative extensions, morphological productivity, and lexicographical registration. New light is shed on a range of scholarly issues and controversies, in ways relevant to German lexicologists and to specialists in other languages, notably French and English.