Merle Oguz
List of John Benjamins publications in which Merle Oguz is involved.
Articles
2026 How similar are the colour idioms of different languages? A comparative study of Estonian, Swedish, and Turkish Progress in Colour Studies: Colour Expression and Cognition, Biggam, Carole P., Domicele Jonauskaite, Mari Uusküla and Dimitris Mylonas (eds.), pp. 74–112 | Chapter
Previous studies have indicated that some colour idioms are recognised universally, and others are culture-specific. This study compared the colour idioms of three languages from different language families: Swedish (Indo-European, Germanic); Estonian (Finno-Ugric, Finnic); Turkish (Altai,… read more
2023 Estonian and Swedish color idioms – shared and unshared: An empirical study of the translation process Babel 69:2, pp. 216–241 | Article
Previous research on color idioms has shown that they are often culture-specific, and translating them requires shifting between cognitive frames of reference. However, little research has been carried out on the translation process of such idioms. We investigated how Swedish color idioms were… read more