In:Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture
Edited by Carole P. Biggam and Christian Kay
[Not in series PICS 1] 2006
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 30 November 2006
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.pics1.toc
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Table of contents
Preface
Dr Robert E. MacLaury 1944–2004: An Appreciation
Abbreviationsxi
Section 1: Theoretical and methodological approaches
The semantics of colour: A new paradigm
A grammatical network of Tzotzil-Mayan colour terms
Quantitative linguistics in the study of colour terminology: A research report
Basic colour terms and type modification: Meaning in relation to function, salience and correlating attributes
Beyond colour: Modelling language in colour-like ways
The normativity of colour
Section 2: Modern languages
Age-related differences in the basic colour vocabulary of French
Towards a general description of the semantic field of colour in European Portuguese
Evolving secondary colours: Evidence from Sorbian
Colour terms in Nova Scotia
Section 3: Historical approaches
Political upheaval and a disturbance in the colour vocabulary of Early English
Colours of the landscape: Old English colour terms in place-names
The medieval gaze at grips with a medieval world
Index
