The Semantics Of Colour


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The Semantics of Colour


The Semantics of Colour

Author: Honorary Senior Research Fellow C P Biggam

language: en

Publisher:

Release Date: 2014-05-14


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Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from modern and historical languages from around the world. These include discussions of Icelandic horses, Peruvian guinea-pigs, medieval roses, the colour yellow in Stuart England, and Polynesian children's colour terms. Major techniques used in colour research are presented and discussed, such as the evolutionary sequence, Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Vantage Theory. The book also addresses whether we can understand the colour systems of the past, including prehistory, by combining various semantic techniques currently used in both modern and historical colour research with archaeological and environmental information.

The Semantics of Colour


The Semantics of Colour

Author: C. P. Biggam

language: en

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Release Date: 2012-03-29


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This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

Progress in Colour Studies: Language and culture


Progress in Colour Studies: Language and culture

Author: Carole Patricia Biggam

language: en

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Release Date: 2006-01-01


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Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers originated in a 2004 conference entitled 'Progress in Colour Studies' which was held in the University of Glasgow, U.K. The contributions to this first volume, which is principally linguistic and anthropological in content, and to its companion on the psychological aspects of colour, present either summaries of state-of-the-art colour research in various disciplines, or in-depth accounts of certain aspects of such work. This volume includes approaches such as Natural Semantic Metalanguage, social network analysis, quantitative analysis, type modification, vantage theory, the centrality of social norms of inference, place-names and heraldry. In the process, new insights are offered into the following languages: English, French, Portuguese, Sorbian, Burarra, Cape Breton Gaelic, Tzotzil, and others.