Colour Studies
A broad spectrum
Editors
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
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Preface | p. ix
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Acknowledgements | p. x
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Abbreviations | pp. xi–xiv
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Prehistoric colour semantics
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Prehistoric colour semantics: A contradiction in termsCarole P. Biggam | pp. 3–28
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Colour and Linguistics
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Preface to Section II | pp. 29–30
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Towards a historical and cultural atlas of colour terms in the Near East: Remarks on GREEN and BLUE in some Arabic and Aramaic vernacularsAlexander Borg | pp. 31–52
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The evolution of GRUE: Evidence for a new colour term in the language of the HimbaAlexandra Grandison, Ian R.L. Davies and Paul T. Sowden | pp. 53–66
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Linguistic categorization of BLUE in Standard ItalianMari Uusküla | pp. 67–78
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From blood to worms: The semantic evolution of a Portuguese colour termAndrew Swearingen | pp. 79–92
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The motivational analysis of some Finnic colour termsVilja Oja | pp. 93–108
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Her blue eyes are red: An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in EnglishJodi L. Sandford | pp. 109–125
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The spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of EnglishMarc Alexander and Christian Kay | pp. 126–139
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A metaphorical spectrum: Surveying colour terms in EnglishWendy Anderson and Ellen Bramwell | pp. 140–152
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Exploring the metaphorical use of colour with the Historical Thesaurus of English: A case study of purple and lavenderRachael Hamilton | pp. 153–166
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Colour categorization, naming and preference
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Preface to Section III | pp. 167–168
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The case for infant colour categoriesAnna Franklin, Alice Skelton and Gemma Catchpole | pp. 169–180
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Bornstein’s paradox (redux)Don Dedrick | pp. 181–199
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Category effects on colour discriminationChristoph Witzel and Karl R. Gegenfurtner | pp. 200–211
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Colour category effects: Evidence from asymmetries in task performanceOliver Wright | pp. 212–224
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Gender differences in colour namingDimitris Mylonas, Galina V. Paramei and Lindsay W. MacDonald | pp. 225–239
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Personality and gender-schemata contributions to colour preferencesDavid Bimler, Jennifer Brunt, Laura Lanning and Valérie Bonnardel | pp. 240–257
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Axiological aspects of Polish colour vocabulary: A study of associationsDanuta Stanulewicz, Ewa Komorowska and Adam Pawłowski | pp. 258–272
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The metaphysical significance of colour categorization: Mind, world, and their complicated relationshipMazviita Chirimuuta | pp. 273–286
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Colour and the World
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Preface to Section IV | pp. 287–289
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Color seeing and speaking: Effects of biology, environment and languageAlessio Plebe and Vivian M. De La Cruz | pp. 291–306
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Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features: A study of four Berwickshire parishesLeonie Dunlop and Carole Hough | pp. 307–322
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Referential meaning in basic and non-basic color termsAlena V. Anishchanka, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts | pp. 323–338
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Unfolding colour in mind and language: Strategies for colour denotation in Spanish wine-tasting notesMarzenna Mioduszewska | pp. 339–351
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Synaesthetic associations: Exploring the colours of voicesAnja Moos, David R. Simmons and Rachel Smith | pp. 352–365
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Bach to the blues: Color, music and emotion across culturesLilia R. Prado-León, Karen B. Schloss and Stephen E. Palmer | pp. 366–379
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“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 centuryAlexandra Loske | pp. 380–396
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Lighting up Shakespeare: The metamerism of Jacobean stage lighting using LED technologyEmma Armstrong and Joe Stathers-Tracey | pp. 397–412
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Index | pp. 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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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. Chapter 13. Colour and ideology.
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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BIC Subject: CFF – Historical & comparative linguistics
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General