Colour Studies

1. Preface; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Abbreviations; 4. Prehistoric colour semantics; 5. Prehistoric colour semantics: A contradiction in terms (by Biggam, Carole P.); 6. Colour and Linguistics; 7. Preface to Section II; 8. Towards a historical and cultural atlas of colour terms in the Near East: Remarks on GREEN and BLUE in some Arabic and Aramaic vernaculars (by Borg, Alexander); 9. The evolution of GRUE: Evidence for a new colour term in the language of the Himba (by Grandison, Alexandra); 10. Linguistic categorization of BLUE in Standard Italian (by Uuskula, Mari); 11. From blood to worms: The semantic evolution of a Portuguese colour term (by Swearingen, Andrew); 12. The motivational analysis of some Finnic colour terms (by Oja, Vilja); 13. Her blue eyes are red: An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in English (by Sandford, Jodi L.); 14. The spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of English (by Alexander, Marc); 15. A metaphorical spectrum: Surveying colour terms in English (by Anderson, Wendy); 16. Exploring the metaphorical use of colour with the Historical Thesaurus of English: A case study of purple and lavender (by Hamilton, Rachael); 17. Colour categorization, naming and preference; 18. Preface to Section III; 19. The case for infant colour categories (by Franklin, Anna); 20. Bornstein's paradox (redux) (by Dedrick, Don); 21. Category effects on colour discrimination (by Witzel, Christoph); 22. Colour category effects: Evidence from asymmetries in task performance (by Wright, Oliver); 23. Gender differences in colour naming (by Mylonas, Dimitris); 24. Personality and gender-schemata contributions to colour preferences (by Bimler, David); 25. Axiological aspects of Polish colour vocabulary: A study of associations (by Stanulewicz, Danuta); 26. The metaphysical significance of colour categorization: Mind, world, and their complicated relationship (by Chirimuuta, Mazviita); 27. Colour and the World; 28. Preface to Section IV; 29. Color seeing and speaking: Effects of biology, environment and language (by Plebe, Alessio); 30. Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features: A study of four Berwickshire parishes (by Dunlop, Leonie); 31. Referential meaning in basic and non-basic color terms (by Anishchanka, Alena V.); 32. Unfolding colour in mind and language: Strategies for colour denotation in Spanish wine-tasting notes (by Mioduszewska, Marzenna); 33. Synaesthetic associations: Exploring the colours of voices (by Moos, Anja); 34. Bach to the blues: Color, music and emotion across cultures (by Prado-Leon, Lilia R.); 35. "Miss Gartside's immediate eye": An examination of Mary Gartside's publications on colour between 1805 and 1808 in the context of illustrated colour literature and paint manuals of the early nineteenth century (by Loske, Alexandra); 36. Lighting up Shakespeare: The metamerism of Jacobean stage lighting using LED technology (by Armstrong, Emma); 37. Index