Jodi L. Sandford
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jodi L. Sandford is involved.
2026 Lightly filling the air with colour: A construction analysis [WITH *COLOUR] Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition, Biggam, Carole P., Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas (eds.), pp. 15–28 | Chapter
How do we structure the conceptual nature of language and our experience of colour? I discuss one of the ways in which we do this through the construction [WITH *COLOUR]. With is one of the three most frequent prepositions used with colour terms, as is evident from the Corpus of Contemporary… read more
2018 Chapter 14. B lack and white linguistic category entrenchment in English Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei (eds.), pp. 425–439 | Chapter
The objective of this chapter is to discuss the cognitive entrenchment of the linguistic categories black and white in association with pleasant and unpleasant in English through a semantic application of the Implicit Association Test (IAT). This study continues earlier linguistic research of… read more
2014 Her blue eyes are red: An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in English Colour Studies: A broad spectrum, Anderson, Wendy, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay (eds.), pp. 109–125 | Article
The lexical frame of color as a primary experience is often used to exemplify linguistic theories and yet there is still a lack of a cognitive color model. Cognitive linguistics establishes meaning in a central role through the ideas of embodied experience and cognitive models that are evinced… read more
2011 Warm, cool, light, dark, or afterimage: Dimensions and connotations of conceptual color metaphor/metonym New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay and David R. Simmons (eds.), pp. 205–218 | Article
Conceptual color metaphor/metonym (CCMM) and our semantic frame of color are motivated through the embodied co-occurrence of color experience as light (RGBu) and as pigment/substance (RYBu [CYM where C= cyan M = Magenta]). Conceptual perceptive mapping establishes a cognitive mechanism to… read more



