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Publication details [#9600]

Ure, Jean N. 1967. A comparative study of registers: The distribution of colour words in Romanian and English. Proceedings of the International Congress of Linguists/Actes du Congrès International des Linguistes 10 (1) : 733–745.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

color terminology | formality | register | situation

Language as a subject

English | Rumanian

Annotation

U. claims that with respect to color terms, Romanian and English make the same register distinction on the parameters of 'field', 'mode' and 'situational involvement', but not on the parameters of 'demand-creating' and 'formality'.