Speaking of Colors and Odors

Name: Speaking of Colors and Odors
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Erschienen am 26. Juli 2007

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Speaking of Colors and Odors
Editorial page
Title page
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Table of contents
Speaking of colors and odors
1. Introduction to the topic
2. The contributions in the context of previous research
3. On the contributions to this volume
4. Acknowledgements
References
Color, smell, and language
1. Is the propositional nature of language an Aristotelian myth?
2. Is there a language of memory?
What does this entail for semantics?
3. Is there an architecture of sensibility and sense?
4. Sensation vs. communication: A field of conflict
4.1. Perception and communication in olfaction
4.2. Perception and communication of colors
4.3. Some consequences
5. Is the evolution of symbolic communication based on human sensibility?
6. Conclusion
References
How can language cope with color?
1. Language and color: Is there a problem?
2. Language and color: There is a problem!
3. A short description of some principles of color vision
4. A short description of some principles of brain function
5. Methods to study the function of the brain
6. Single cells, neuronal assemblies, and behavior
7. Single cells versus cell assemblies
8. Processing of color information in the nervous system
9. Peculiarities of human color perception and naming
10. Discrepancies between the physical world and its subjective experience, or perception
11. Perception as synthesis of an internal representation, and its relation to language
12. Conclusions
Acknowledgment
References
Color perception, color description and metaphor
1. Introduction
1.1. Colors without a name - color names without color information
1.2. Strategies of naming colors and describing color impressions
2. Patterns of denoting colors
2.1. Denotation of a hue in analogy to the typical color of a well-known object
2.2. Color naming with regard to dyes and pigments
2.3. Relational ordering of colors in the color circle and color sphere
2.4. Hybrid forms: Color description with regard to the relational order of colors and to typical colors of objects
3. Descriptions of interacting colors
3.1. Opposition: warm - cold
3.2. Opposition: active - passive
3.3. Opposition: soft - strong / pale - intense
3.4. Opposition: heavy - light
3.5. Opposition: deep - flat
3.6. The metaphor of the `rhythm of colors'
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgment
References
Attractiveness and adornment
1. Introduction: Functional cycles and naming
2. From composite signals to distanced communication
3. Reference to smell in Eipo, Yale, and some other Papuan languages
4. Reference to color in Eipo, Yale, and some other Papuan languages
5. Conclusion: Signs of danger, signs of beauty
References
Color terms between elegance and beauty
1. Axiomatic preliminaries
2. Color naming with textiles
3. Classification of color names for textiles
4. Classification of color names for cosmetics
5. Language use and color names for textiles
5.1. Oral use or customer behavior
5.2. Written use
6. Consumer behavior and function of color names
7. Underlying philosophy and strategy
8. Conclusion
References
Color names and dynamic imagery
1. Introductory remarks
2. Color classification schemes
3. Color names and dynamic imagery
4. Complex color terms in advertising - examples from the automobile industry
5. Conclusion
References
From blue stockings to blue movies
1. Introductory remarks
2. Research on color terms
3. Metonymy as seen within Cognitive Linguistics
3.1. Color metonymy: Blue - different aspects of meaning
3.2. Metonymy vs. metaphor
3.3. Radial network of blue metonymies in English
4. Connection to newer approaches in foreign language teaching methodology
Acknowledgement
References
Odor memory*
References
From psychophysics to semiophysics: Categories as acts of meaning
1. Introduction
2. Some historical landmarks
2.1. From Psychophysics ...
2.2. . to Cognitive sciences: Basic color terms
2.3. Cognitive categories and naming
3. Odors
3.1. Odors and psychophysics
3.2. Cognitive approach and categories of smells
4. Linguistic devices for odors
4.1. The veridical label revisited
4.2. A brief summary of the data from Dubois and Rouby (2002)
4.3. Linguistic resources for the description of odors
5. Noises and sounds
6. Back to colors
7. Concluding remarks
References
Cognition, olfaction and linguistic creativity*
1. Sketch of the problem
2. Hedonistic judgments as basic cognitive categories in olfaction
3. Common linguistic constructions to describe smells
3.1. Iconic reference
3.2. Indexical reference
3.3. Special cases: Metaphorical reference
4. Why language cannot properly cope with olfaction
5. Does it make scents? - The poetic function of language in cologne advertising
5.1. Theoretical and methodological terminology - six functions of language
5.2. The referential function
5.3. The conative function
5.4. The poetic function and the projection principle
6. Hypothesis
7. Synesthesia: Neuropsychological capacity vs. poetic device
7.1. Some remarks on the modalities of sensory perception
8. Empirical evidence
8.1. The corpus
8.2. Synesthetic constructions in cologne advertisements
8.3. Lexical level: Immediate synesthetic expressions 1 - Ad-hoc adjective compounds
8.4. Lexical level: Immediate synesthetic expressions 2 - Ad-hoc noun phrases
8.5. Morpho-syntactic level: Patterns of lexical recurrence
8.6. Textual level: Semantic clustering
9. Summary and conclusions
References
Understanding synesthetic expressions
1. Introduction
2. The PP model and its structure
3. Comprehension based on sensory co-occurrence
4. Sensory experiences and synesthesia
5. Comprehension based on emotional experiences
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Olfactory and visual processing and verbalization
Conclusion
References
Contributors
Index
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