Francis Conlan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Francis Conlan is involved.

Article

Conlan, Francis 2003 Searching for the semantic boundaries of the Japanese colour term ‘AO’ Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 26:1, pp. 71–86 | Article

The Japanese language has a colour term, ‘ao’, which is usually referred to in bilingual dictionaries as being the equivalent of English ‘blue’. Very often, however, it is used to describe things which English speakers would describe as being green. Granny Smith apples are ‘ao’, so are all… read more