Preface to Section II

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Abbreviations xi
6. Prehistoric colour semantics
7. Prehistoric colour semantics 3
8. Colour and Linguistics
9. Preface to Section II 29
10. Towards a historical and cultural atlas of colour terms in the Near East 31
11. The evolution of GRUE 53
12. Linguistic categorization of BLUE in Standard Italian 67
13. From blood to worms 79
14. The motivational analysis of some Finnic colour terms 93
15. Her blue eyes are red 109
16. The spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of English 126
17. A metaphorical spectrum 140
18. Exploring the metaphorical use of colour with the Historical Thesaurus of English 153
19. Colour categorization, naming and preference
20. Preface to Section III 167
21. The case for infant colour categories 169
22. Bornstein’s paradox (redux) 181
23. Category effects on colour discrimination 200
24. Colour category effects 212
25. Gender differences in colour naming 225
26. Personality and gender-schemata contributions to colour preferences 240
27. Axiological aspects of Polish colour vocabulary 258
28. The metaphysical significance of colour categorization 273
29. Colour and the World
30. Preface to Section IV 287
31. Color seeing and speaking 291
32. Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features 307
33. Referential meaning in basic and non-basic color terms 323
34. Unfolding colour in mind and language 339
35. Synaesthetic associations 352
36. Bach to the blues 366
37. “Miss Gartside’s immediate eye” 380
38. Lighting up Shakespeare 397
39. Index 413