Victoria Bogushevskaya
List of John Benjamins publications in which Victoria Bogushevskaya is involved.
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2018 Chapter 16. The journey of the “apple from China”: A cross-linguistic study on the psychological salience of the colour term for orange Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei (eds.), pp. 455–467 | Chapter
The designations of the orange fruit in Indo-European languages very often literally meant “apple from China”. Citrus species were known in the Chinese cultural area in the fifth century BCE and glossed in c.100 CE, but there is no basic colour term for orange in Modern Standard Mandarin. This… read more