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Individual and population differences in focal colors

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© 2007 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2007 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Color naming research in its many forms and guises xi
  5. Part I: Color perception
  6. Hue categorization and color naming: Cognition to language to culture 3
  7. Individual and population differences in focal colors 29
  8. Russian color names: Mapping into a perceptual color space 55
  9. Russian 'blues': Controversies of basicness 75
  10. Colour term research of Hugo Magnus 107
  11. Part II: Color cognition
  12. Categories of desaturated-complex color: Sensorial, perceptual, and cognitive models 125
  13. Relative basicness of color terms: Modeling and measurement 151
  14. The ambiguity of brightness (with special reference to Old English) and a new model for colour description in semantics 171
  15. Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages 189
  16. Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic 211
  17. Basic color term evolution in the light of ancient evidence from the Near East 229
  18. Basic color terms from Proto-Semitic to Old Ethiopic 247
  19. Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic 263
  20. Japanese color terms, from 400 C.E. to the present: Literature, orthography, and language contact in light of current cognitive theory 295
  21. Color terms in Colonia Tovar, an Alemannisch Enclave in Venezuela 319
  22. Mien (Yao) color terms 325
  23. Part III: Color semiosis
  24. The semiosis of Swedish car colour names: Descriptive and amplifying functions 337
  25. Color and emotions in English 347
  26. Linguistic construal of colors: The case of Russian 363
  27. Color words in painting descriptions: Some linguistic evidence for entity-like conceptualization 379
  28. Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives 395
  29. Prototypical and stereotypical color in Slavic languages: Models based on folklore 405
  30. Colour terms in fashion 421
  31. To have color and to have no color : The coloring of the face in the Czech linguistic picture of the world 441
  32. Gender, age, and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures 457
  33. Towards a new topology of colour 467
  34. Index 481
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Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Foreword vii
  4. Color naming research in its many forms and guises xi
  5. Part I: Color perception
  6. Hue categorization and color naming: Cognition to language to culture 3
  7. Individual and population differences in focal colors 29
  8. Russian color names: Mapping into a perceptual color space 55
  9. Russian 'blues': Controversies of basicness 75
  10. Colour term research of Hugo Magnus 107
  11. Part II: Color cognition
  12. Categories of desaturated-complex color: Sensorial, perceptual, and cognitive models 125
  13. Relative basicness of color terms: Modeling and measurement 151
  14. The ambiguity of brightness (with special reference to Old English) and a new model for colour description in semantics 171
  15. Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages 189
  16. Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic 211
  17. Basic color term evolution in the light of ancient evidence from the Near East 229
  18. Basic color terms from Proto-Semitic to Old Ethiopic 247
  19. Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic 263
  20. Japanese color terms, from 400 C.E. to the present: Literature, orthography, and language contact in light of current cognitive theory 295
  21. Color terms in Colonia Tovar, an Alemannisch Enclave in Venezuela 319
  22. Mien (Yao) color terms 325
  23. Part III: Color semiosis
  24. The semiosis of Swedish car colour names: Descriptive and amplifying functions 337
  25. Color and emotions in English 347
  26. Linguistic construal of colors: The case of Russian 363
  27. Color words in painting descriptions: Some linguistic evidence for entity-like conceptualization 379
  28. Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives 395
  29. Prototypical and stereotypical color in Slavic languages: Models based on folklore 405
  30. Colour terms in fashion 421
  31. To have color and to have no color : The coloring of the face in the Czech linguistic picture of the world 441
  32. Gender, age, and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures 457
  33. Towards a new topology of colour 467
  34. Index 481
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