In:Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling
Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick
[Not in series 137] 2007
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 21 November 2007
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Table of contents
Foreword
Color naming research in its many forms and guises
Part I: Color perception1
Hue categorization and color naming: Cognition to language to culture
Individual and population differences in focal colors
Russian color names: Mapping into a perceptual color space
Russian 'blues': Controversies of basicness
Colour term research of Hugo Magnus
Part II: Color cognition123
Categories of desaturated-complex color: Sensorial, perceptual, and cognitive models
Relative basicness of color terms: Modeling and measurement
The ambiguity of brightness (with special reference to Old English) and a new model for colour description in semantics
Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages
Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic
Basic color term evolution in the light of ancient evidence from the Near East
Basic color terms from Proto-Semitic to Old Ethiopic
Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic
Japanese color terms, from 400 C.E. to the present: Literature, orthography, and language contact in light of current cognitive theory
Color terms in Colonia Tovar, an Alemannisch Enclave in Venezuela
Mien (Yao) color terms
Part III: Color semiosis335
The semiosis of Swedish car colour names: Descriptive and amplifying functions
Color and emotions in English
Linguistic construal of colors: The case of Russian
Color words in painting descriptions: Some linguistic evidence for entity-like conceptualization
Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives
Prototypical and stereotypical color in Slavic languages: Models based on folklore
Colour terms in fashion
To have color and to have no color: The coloring of the face in the Czech linguistic picture of the world
Gender, age, and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures
Towards a new topology of colour
Index
