James Stanlaw

List of John Benjamins publications in which James Stanlaw is involved.

Article

Stanlaw, James 2007 Japanese color terms, from 400 C.E. to the present: Literature, orthography, and language contact in light of current cognitive theory Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling, MacLaury, Robert E., Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick (eds.), pp. 295–318 | Article

The aim of this chapter is to describe the history of Japanese color naming and relate it to current models in color nomenclature research. Though Japanese was among the twenty languages most carefully examined in the original Berlin and Kay (1969) investigations thirty years ago, the complexity… read more