12.2392, Qs: Business Women's Lang, Color Connotation Words

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-2392. Wed Sep 26 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 12.2392, Qs: Business Women's Lang, Color Connotation Words

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Date:  Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:08:43 +0200
From:  Veronika Koller <Veronika.Koller at isis.wu-wien.ac.at>
Subject:  language of business women

2)
Date:  Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:10:10 +0300
From:  "Marianna Katsoyannou" <marianna at ilsp.gr>
Subject:  Color concepts

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Date:  Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:08:43 +0200
From:  Veronika Koller <Veronika.Koller at isis.wu-wien.ac.at>
Subject:  language of business women

Dear list members,
does anyone know what (if any) linguistic research has been done on the
language of business women?

I appreciate your help and will of course post a summary.

Best regards,
Veronika Koller
Mag.a Veronika Koller
Department of English/Business English
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
Augasse 9
A-1090 Vienna
Tel.: 43/1/31336-4068
Fax: 43/1/31336-747


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Date:  Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:10:10 +0300
From:  "Marianna Katsoyannou" <marianna at ilsp.gr>
Subject:  Color concepts




In the context of a research on child language we are looking for words
with strong single-color connotations, to evoke the color concepts by
association upon reading the words. The colors we are interested in are
red, green, blue, yellow, and brown.
The restriction is that these words should be normally known to 12 year
olds but not very frequent in the written lexicon.  The requirement for
low frequency may be somewhat at odds with the requirement for strong
color association, so the low frequency requirement may be considered
secondary, or only relative to higher-frequency words that also have
strong color associations.
As an example, if "lemon" is a prototypically yellow thing, we might
prefer "canary" in that it is presumably quite yellow conceptually but
(again, presumably) less frequent.  Note that we are not interested in
the association from the color word to this word (e.g.,
"yellow->canary"), but in the opposite direction ("canary->yellow").
A further constraint is that this is for an experiment in Greek, in
which we don't have relevant association or frequency norms.  We are
hoping to get some help from other languages that might help direct our
search or provide specific cases that may be carried over to the Greek
language.
Thank you in advance for your help,

Athanassios Protopapas protopap at ilsp.gr
Marianne Katsoyannou  marianna at ilsp.gr
Institute for Language and Speech Processing
Artemidos 6 & Epidaurou, 15125 Maroussi
Phone: +301-6875300 Fax: +301-6854270

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