To have color and to have no color: The coloring of the face in the Czech linguistic picture of the world

Vanková, Irena

doi:10.1075/z.137.29van

In:Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick
[Not in series 137] 2007
► pp. 441–456

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To have color and to have no color: The coloring of the face in the Czech linguistic picture of the world

Irena Vanková | Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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Published online: 21 November 2007

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The semantic analysis of color vocabulary provides insight into models of perception and thinking. Color and coloring play an important role in the way phenomena of human perception and reflection are conceptualized. Various linguistic and cultural connotations related to colors in specific contexts are explored and a semantic analysis of the role of color in these contexts is given, with reference to Czech color words.

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