In:Colour Studies: A broad spectrum
Edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough and Christian Kay
[Not in series 191] 2014
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 26 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.191.toc
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Table of contents
Prefaceix
Acknowledgementsx
Abbreviations
Prehistoric colour semantics
Prehistoric colour semantics: A contradiction in terms
Colour and Linguistics
Preface to Section II
Towards a historical and cultural atlas of colour terms in the Near East: Remarks on GREEN and BLUE in some Arabic and Aramaic vernaculars
The evolution of GRUE: Evidence for a new colour term in the language of the Himba
Linguistic categorization of BLUE in Standard Italian
From blood to worms: The semantic evolution of a Portuguese colour term
The motivational analysis of some Finnic colour terms
Her blue eyes are red: An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in English
The spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of English
A metaphorical spectrum: Surveying colour terms in English
Exploring the metaphorical use of colour with the Historical Thesaurus of English: A case study of purple and lavender
Colour categorization, naming and preference
Preface to Section III
The case for infant colour categories
Bornstein’s paradox (redux)
Category effects on colour discrimination
Colour category effects: Evidence from asymmetries in task performance
Gender differences in colour naming
Personality and gender-schemata contributions to colour preferences
Axiological aspects of Polish colour vocabulary: A study of associations
The metaphysical significance of colour categorization: Mind, world, and their complicated relationship
Colour and the World
Preface to Section IV
Color seeing and speaking: Effects of biology, environment and language
Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features: A study of four Berwickshire parishes
Referential meaning in basic and non-basic color terms
Unfolding colour in mind and language: Strategies for colour denotation in Spanish wine-tasting notes
Synaesthetic associations: Exploring the colours of voices
Bach to the blues: Color, music and emotion across cultures
“Miss Gartside’s immediate eye”: An examination of Mary Gartside’s publications on colour between 1805 and 1808 in the context of illustrated colour literature and paint manuals of the early nineteenth century
Lighting up Shakespeare: The metamerism of Jacobean stage lighting using LED technology
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