Colour Studies

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A broad spectrum

Wendy Anderson Carole P. Biggam Carole Hough Christian Kay(Editor)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Published on 26. November 2014

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Colour Studies
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Section I. Prehistoric colour semantics
Prehistoric colour semantics: A contradiction in terms
1. Introduction
2. Lexical form
3. Semantic content
4. Core concepts and core vocabulary
5. The evolutionary sequence
6. Cognates
7. The situation so far
8. Prototypes
9. Archaeology and colour prototypes
10. Anthropology and colour concepts
11. Art and colour terms
12. The earliest recorded Indo-European colour terms
13. Conclusion
References
Section II. Colour and linguistics
Preface to Section II
Towards a historical and cultural atlas of colour terms in the Near East
1. Introduction
2. Brightness versus hue
3. The data
4. The grue (green+blue) category in contemporary Aramaic
5. Conclusion
References
The evolution of GRUE: Evidence for a new colour term in the language of the Himba
1. Introduction
2. Experiment 1: colour list task
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Method
2.3 Results
2.4 Discussion
3. Experiment 2: colour naming task
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Method
3.3 Results
3.4 Discussion
4. General discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Linguistic categorization of blue in Standard Italian
1. Background and objectives
2. Methodology
3. A description of the subjects
4. Results and discussion
4.1 The list and colour-naming tasks
4.2 Free-sorting and best-example tasks
4.3 Collocation-association task and reference to objects
5. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
From blood to worms: The semantic evolution of a Portuguese colour term
1. Introduction
2. Portuguese roxo and vermelho
3. Evidence and timeline of semantic change
4. Processes of change
4.1 The internal process
4.2 The external processes (Iberian dyeing trade)
5. Conclusion
References
The motivational analysis of some Finnic colour terms
1. Introduction
2. Ruskea
3. Raudjas
4. Lepp
5. Leet
6. Paat
7. Conclusion
References
Her blue eyes are red: An idealized cognitive model of conceptual color metonymy in English
1. Introduction
1.1 Activating metonymy for color conceptualization
1.2 Definition and discernment of conceptual metonymy
1.3 Phrasing and definition
1.4 Discernment of conceptual metonymy
1.5 Conceptual metonymy and image schemas
2. Past research on conceptual metonymy
3. Corpus-based analysis
3.1 Methodology
3.2 Results
4. Discussion of conceptual color metonymy
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
The spread of red in the Historical Thesaurus of English
1. Introduction
2. The problem of pink
3. The rise of red
3.1 The effect of pink on red
4. red and BCC sub-category size variance
5. The salience of red
5.1 Back to BCCs
6. Conclusion
References
A metaphorical spectrum: Surveying colour terms in English
1. The ubiquity of colour terms
2. Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus
3. English colour terms: a case-study
3.1 Black
3.2 White
3.3 Blue
3.4 Yellow
3.5 Green
4. Conclusion
References
Exploring the metaphorical use of colour with the Historical Thesaurus of English
1. Introduction
2. Mapping metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus
3. Methodology
4. Purple
5. Lavender
6. Conclusions
References
Section III. Colour categorization, naming and preference
Preface to Section III
The case for infant colour categories
1. Introduction
2. The evidence for infant colour categories
3. The evidence against infant colour categories
4. Alternative explanations for infant colour categories
5. Theoretical challenges
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Bornstein's paradox (redux)
1. The logic of "Bornstein's paradox"
2. Is there a perceptual cognitive organization of colour experience
3. Undermining Bornstein's paradox: colour as a core cognitive domain
4. Explicit colour categories
References
Category effects on colour discrimination
1. Introduction
2. Categorical sensitivity
3. Categorical facilitation
4. Lateralized category effect
5. Categorical appearance
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Colour category effects: Evidence from asymmetries in task performance
1. Introduction
1.1 Colour category effects
1.2 Role of on-line stimulus categorization in colour category effects
2. Within-pair asymmetries in performance of colour 2-AFC and visual search tasks
2.1 Asymmetries in 2-AFC tasks
2.2 Asymmetries in visual search tasks
3. Summary
References
Gender differences in colour naming
1. Introduction: gender differences in colour vocabulary, colour naming and colour perception
2. Method
2.1 Interface of the web-based colour-naming experiment
2.2 Colour stimuli
2.3 Data analysis
3. Results
3.1 Validation of the online experimental methodology
3.2 Number of words in colour descriptors: females vs males
3.3 Occurrence of most frequent colour names: females vs males
3.4 Occurrence of BCTs: females vs males
3.5 Consistency of colour descriptors: Females vs males
3.6 Response times for BCTs and frequent non-BCTs: females vs males
3.7 Synthetic image: colour naming segmentation by females vs males
4. Discussion
References
Personality and gender-schemata contributions to colour preferences
1. Introduction
2. Method
2.1 Subjects
2.2 Stimuli
2.3 Procedure
3. Results
3.1 BSRI
3.2 IPIP
3.3 Preference rankings
3.4 Consensus analysis
3.5 Mean preference curves
3.6 Principal component analysis
3.7 Correlations of preferences with IPIP and BSRI scores
4. Conclusions
References
Axiological aspects of Polish colour vocabulary: A study of associations
1. Introduction
2. Polish colour vocabulary
3. Axiology and colours
4. The questionnaire and respondents
5. Results of the questionnaire
5.1 A quantitative analysis
5.2 A qualitative / quantitative analysis
5.3 Associations and fixed phrases
6. Conclusions
References
The metaphysical significance of colour categorization: Mind, world, and their complicated relations
1. Introduction: Are colours real?
2. Defining colour categorizationloosely
3. Anti-realism
4. Realism
5. Relationism
5.1 Categorization and colour constancy
5.2 Closing remarks
6. Summary
References
Section IV. Colour and the world
Preface to Section IV
Color seeing and speaking: Effects of biology, environment and language
1. Introduction
2. Computational approaches to the color terms problem
3. Vision and language integration in the cortex
4. Environments and languages
5. Conclusion
References
Colour terms in the names of coastal and inland features
1. Introduction
2. Base names and derived names
3. Colour terms and their referents
4. Interpreting names
5. Coastal and inland names
6. Conclusions
References
Referential meaning in basic and non-basic color terms
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. The referential range of basic and non-basic color terms
4. Types of color terms
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Unfolding colour in mind and language: Strategies for colour denotation in Spanish wine-tasting
1. Introduction
2. Colour naming in wine notes
2.1 The red wine categorization system in Spanish
2.2 The white wine categorization system in Spanish
2.3 Other strategies in colour description and naming
2.4 Shifting strategies and perspectives
3. Individual perception versus social communication
3.1 Dynamical systems theory and complex adaptive systems
3.2 Natural language applications of complex adaptive systems thinking
3.3 Perception of colour
3.4 Language as a social activity
4. Conclusion and future plans
References
Synaesthetic associations: Exploring the colours of voices
1. Introduction
2. Experimental design
2.1 Participants
2.2 Voice stimuli
2.3 Colour stimuli
2.4 Procedure
2.5 Analysis
3. Results and discussion
3.1 Voice description
3.2 Semantic differentials
3.3 Colour display
3.4 Consistency
4. Conclusion
References
Bach to the blues: Color, music and emotion across cultures
1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1 Participants
2.2 Materials and equipment
2.3 Procedure
3. Results
3.1 Music-to-color cross-modal matching
3.2 Color-emotion ratings
3.3 Music-emotion ratings
3.4 Correlations between emotion ratings of colors and music
4. Discussion
Acknowledgments
References
"Miss Gartside's immediate eye": An examination of Mary Gartside's publications on colour
1. Gartside in context: publications on colour in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century
1.1 Enlightened Romantics: who published on colour, and why?
1.2 The influence of Newton
1.3 Moses Harris's colour circles
2. Mary Gartside's illustrated publications on colour
2.1 Gartside's life, career and context
2.2 An Essay on Light and Shade, 1805
2.3 An Essay on a New Theory of Colours, 1808
2.4 Ornamental Groups, 1808
3. Illustrated books on colour after 1810
3.1 Towards chromo-lithography
3.2 The case of George Field
4. Conclusion
References
Lighting up Shakespeare: The metamerism of Jacobean stage lighting using LED technology
1. Introduction
1.1 A brief history of the Jacobean stage
2. Aims of the investigation
2.1 The metamerism of candlelight using LED technology
2.2 Recreating the Jacobean stage
2.3 The ambience and flicker of a flame
3. Experiments
3.1 Quantitative experiments
3.2 Qualitative experiments
3.3 Colour mixing experiments
4. Results and discussion
4.1 Quantitative results
4.2 Qualitative results
4.3 Colour mixing results
5. Practical interpretation
5.1 Prop lighting - lanterns and cressets
5.2 Stage lighting
5.3 Ambience and flicker
6. Practical evaluation
Acknowledgements
References
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