Colour Studies

A broad spectrum

Editors

Wendy Anderson

| University of Glasgow

Carole P. Biggam

| University of Glasgow

Carole Hough

| University of Glasgow

Christian Kay

| University of Glasgow

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ISBN 9789027212191 | EUR 105.00 | USD 158.00

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This volume presents some of the latest research in colour studies by specialists across a wide range of academic disciplines. Many are represented here, including anthropology, archaeology, the fine arts, linguistics, onomastics, philosophy, psychology and vision science. The chapters have been developed from papers and posters presented at the Progress in Colour Studies (PICS12) conference held at the University of Glasgow. Papers from the earlier PICS04 and PICS08 conferences were published by John Benjamins as Progress in Colour Studies, 2 volumes, 2006 and New Directions in Colour Studies, 2011, respectively. The opening chapter of this new volume stems from the conference keynote talk on prehistoric colour semantics by Carole P. Biggam. The remaining chapters are grouped into three sections: colour and linguistics; colour categorization, naming and preference; and colour and the world. Each section is preceded by a short preface drawing together the themes of the chapters within it. There are thirty-one colour illustrations.

[Not in series, 191] 2014. xiv, 417 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.191

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	x
Abbreviations	xi–xiv
Prehistoric colour semantics
Prehistoric colour semantics: A contradiction in terms Carole P. Biggam	3–28
Colour and Linguistics
Preface to Section II	29–30
Towards a historical and cultural atlas of colour terms in the Near East: Remarks on GREEN and BLUE in some Arabic and Aramaic vernaculars Alexander Borg	31–52
The evolution of GRUE: Evidence for a new colour term in the language of the Himba Alexandra Grandison, Ian R.L. Davies and Paul T. Sowden	53–66
Linguistic categorization of BLUE in Standard Italian Mari Uusküla	67–78
From blood to worms: The semantic evolution of a Portuguese colour term Andrew Swearingen	79–92
The motivational analysis of some Finnic colour terms Vilja Oja	93–108
Her blue eyes are red : An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in English Jodi L. Sandford	109–125
The spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of English Marc Alexander and Christian Kay	126–139
A metaphorical spectrum: Surveying colour terms in English Wendy Anderson and Ellen Bramwell	140–152
Exploring the metaphorical use of colour with the Historical Thesaurus of English: A case study of purple and lavender Rachael Hamilton	153–166
Colour categorization, naming and preference
Preface to Section III	167–168
The case for infant colour categories Anna Franklin, Alice Skelton and Gemma Catchpole	169–180
Bornstein’s paradox (redux) Don Dedrick	181–199
Category effects on colour discrimination Christoph Witzel and Karl R. Gegenfurtner	200–211
Colour category effects: Evidence from asymmetries in task performance Oliver Wright	212–224
Gender differences in colour naming Dimitris Mylonas, Galina V. Paramei and Lindsay W. MacDonald	225–239
Personality and gender-schemata contributions to colour preferences David Bimler, Jennifer Brunt, Laura Lanning and Valérie Bonnardel	240–257
Axiological aspects of Polish colour vocabulary: A study of associations Danuta Stanulewicz, Ewa Komorowska and Adam Pawłowski	258–272
The metaphysical significance of colour categorization: Mind, world, and their complicated relationship Mazviita Chirimuuta	273–286
Colour and the World
Preface to Section IV	287–289
Color seeing and speaking: Effects of biology, environment and language Alessio Plebe and Vivian M. De La Cruz	291–306
Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features: A study of four Berwickshire parishes Leonie Mhari and Carole Hough	307–322
Referential meaning in basic and non-basic color terms Alena V. Anishchanka, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts	323–338
Unfolding colour in mind and language: Strategies for colour denotation in Spanish wine-tasting notes Marzenna Mioduszewska	339–351
Synaesthetic associations: Exploring the colours of voices Anja Moos, David R. Simmons and Rachel Smith	352–365
Bach to the blues: Color, music and emotion across cultures Lilia R. Prado-León, Karen B. Schloss and Stephen E. Palmer	366–379
“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 Alexandra Loske	380–396
Lighting up Shakespeare: The metamerism of Jacobean stage lighting using LED technology Emma Armstrong and Joe Stathers-Tracey	397–412
Index	413–417

“[A]n impressive and wide-ranging collection of chapters covering the state-of-the-art in colour research. The editors have done a tremendous job in bringing this broad range of interdisciplinary work together. [...] There are some extremely high quality and innovative chapters in here that will most certainly become required reading for anyone in the field.”

Asifa Majid, Professor of Language, Communication, and Cultural Cognition at Radboud University Nijmegen

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Chirimuuta, Mazviita

2020. Naturalism and the philosophy of colour ontology and perception. Philosophy Compass 15:2

de Saussure, Louis

2015. Remarques sur la distribution morphologique des termes basiques de couleur en français. Travaux de linguistique n° 69:2 ► pp. 77 ff.

Stanulewicz, Danuta & Adam Pawłowski

2018. In Progress in Colour Studies, ► pp. 241 ff.

Zayniev, Daler

2019. The polysemy of the colour term white in English, Russian, Tajik and Uzbek. ExELL 7:2 ► pp. 112 ff.

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Subjects & Metadata

Linguistics

Anthropological Linguistics

Cognition and language

Historical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

ONIX Metadata

ONIX 2.1

ONIX 3.0

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