Martina Plümacher

List of John Benjamins publications in which Martina Plümacher is involved.

Title

Speaking of Colors and Odors

Edited by Martina Plümacher and Peter Holz

How to speak of colors and odors? In many cases, we have to think about an adequate description of a perceived odor or shade of color. Words are not fluently available.The contributions discuss color and odor perception and its linguistic representation from different disciplinary angles: from… read more

[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 8] 2007. vi, 244 pp.

Articles

Plümacher, Martina 2007 4. Color perception, color description and metaphor Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 61–84 | Chapter

The contribution discusses prerequisites of linguistic representation of colors and color perception. In its first part, it points out strategies of color naming that aim at designating particular shades of colors as precisely as possible. The second part deals with descriptions of regular effects… read more

Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz 2007 1. Speaking of colors and odors Speaking of Colors and Odors, Plümacher, Martina and Peter Holz (eds.), pp. 1–17 | Chapter