Lexicalization patterns in color naming

Lexicalization patterns in color naming
Author: Ida Raffaelli
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2019-10-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027262128

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt with categorization and perceptual salience of color terms, few studies have been consistently conducted in order to investigate phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic devices languages use to form color terms. The aim of this volume is to approach color data from a relativist and typological perspective and to address some novel viewpoints in the research of color terms, such as: (a) the focus on language structure per se in the study of lexicalization data; (b) investigation of inter- and intra-language structural variation; (c) culture and language contact as reflected in language structure. Topics of this book have a broad appeal to researchers working in the fields of linguistics, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

Colour and colour naming: crosslinguistic approaches

Colour and colour naming: crosslinguistic approaches
Author: João Paulo Silvestre
Publisher: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa / Universidade de Aveiro
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9899866628

The Colour and Colour Naming conference, held in 2015 at the University of Lisbon, offered a chance to explore colour naming processes from a cross-linguistic approach. The conference was an initiative of the working group Lexicography And Lexicology from a Pan-European Perspective, itself part of the COST action European Network of Lexicography. The working group investigates the various ways by which vocabularies of European languages can be represented in dictionaries and how existing information from single language dictionaries can be displayed and interlinked to better communicate their common European heritage. The proceedings gather together a selection of studies originally presented at the conference. The first section of the volume outlines a Pan-European perspective of colour names; the second section is devoted to the categorisation and lexicographic description of colour terms.