Mauro D’Orsi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mauro D’Orsi is involved.

Article

Paramei, Galina V., Mauro D’Orsi and Gloria Menegaz 2018 Chapter 5. Diatopic variation in the referential meaning of the “Italian blues” Progress in Colour Studies: Cognition, language and beyond, MacDonald, Lindsay W., Carole P. Biggam and Galina V. Paramei (eds.), pp. 96–119 | Chapter

Standard Italian blu is unanimously glossed as “dark blue”. In comparison, azzurro is referred to as either “light blue” or “medium blue” in different studies. We explored diatopic variation (linguistic variation on a geographical level) in the denotata of blu, azzurro and celeste “sky blue” in… read more