Ewa Komorowska
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ewa Komorowska is involved.
Articles
2026 Beige in Polish: Salience, associations, connotations and possible prototypical references Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition, Biggam, Carole P., Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas (eds.), pp. 204–221 | Chapter
The aim of this paper is to investigate how the noun beż and adjective beżowy ‘beige’, borrowed from French, are understood by Polish speakers. In a survey study, 100 participants (50 women and 50 men) were asked to write down their own definitions of beige as well as to provide associations and… read more
2014 Axiological aspects of Polish colour vocabulary: A study of associations Colour Studies: A broad spectrum, Anderson, Wendy, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 258–272 | Article
The aim of this paper is to investigate axiological attributes of Polish colour terms. We pose the following questions: Which colours are evaluated mostly positively, negatively and neutrally? Are there objects which are provided as both positive and negative associations of a single colour? Are… read more