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Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses
Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino
[Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research 24] 2021
► pp. 97–138

Chapter 3
Experiencing and talking about colors

Article outline
  • 3.1Colors in the world and color in science
    • 3.1.1Color and colors in history and physics
      • 3.1.1.1From colors as pigments for painting to color as light
      • 3.1.1.2Materiality and immateriality of color: Technology and color knowledge
    • 3.1.2The recent heritage from cognitive science
      • 3.1.2.1Color naming and categorization: Linguistic anthropology meets cognitive science
      • 3.1.2.2Reconsidering Berlin and Kay’s paradigm
  • 3.2Case studies: Color experiences and naming in practices
    • 3.2.1Color charts and color words in commercial practices
      • 3.2.1.1Watercolor, oil and decoration: Artistic vs decorative paint charts
      • 3.2.1.2Color charts for cosmetics: Hair dyeing, lipsticks and nail polish
      • 3.2.1.3Color chips in charts for car paints
      • 3.2.1.4Conclusion
    • 3.2.2Color naming strategies in Palikur
      • 3.2.2.1Basic color terms in Palikur?
      • 3.2.2.2No name for “color”
      • 3.2.2.3Identification of various color naming strategies
        • Morphologic strategy
        • Syntactic strategy
        • Semantic strategy
        • Loan strategy
      • 3.2.2.4Discussion and conclusions
    • 3.2.3Representations of colors and car industry demands
      • 3.2.3.1From an industrial demand to research questions
      • 3.2.3.2Colors in the real world and in artificial reality
  • 3.3Color(s): A diversity of semiotic statuses
    • 3.3.1Colors as matters
    • 3.3.2Colors as properties
    • 3.3.3Colors of things: Essence vs. appearance
    • 3.3.4Colors as signs: Indexes or symbols
    • 3.3.5Color as the phenomenal property of light
  • 3.4Going further
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 01 December 2021
https://doi.org/10.1075/celcr.24.03can
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