18.204, Books: Historical Ling/Lexicography/Semantics: Biggam, Kay (Eds)

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Date: 18-Jan-2007
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Progress in Colour Studies: Biggam, Kay (Eds) 

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Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 14:42:01
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: Progress in Colour Studies: Biggam, Kay (Eds) 

Title: Progress in Colour Studies 
Subtitle: Volume I. Language and culture 
Series Title: Progress in Colour Studies 1  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=Z%20PICS%201 

Editor: Carole P. Biggam
Editor: Christian J. Kay

Hardback: ISBN: 9789027232397 Pages: 223 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9789027232397 Pages: 223 Price: U.S. $ 114.00

Abstract:

Part of the set: Biggam, Carole P., Christian J. Kay and Nicola Pitchford
(Eds), Progress in Colour Studies: Volume I. Language and culture & Volume
II. Psychological aspects (set). 

Along with its companion volume, this book offers a fascinating glimpse
into the current avenues of research into colour, a phenomenon which daily
affects all our lives in often surprising ways. The majority of the papers
originated in a 2004 conference entitled 'Progress in Colour Studies' which
was held in the University of Glasgow, U.K. The contributions to this first
volume, which is principally linguistic and anthropological in content, and
to its companion on the psychological aspects of colour, present either
summaries of state-of-the-art colour research in various disciplines, or
in-depth accounts of certain aspects of such work. This volume includes
approaches such as Natural Semantic Metalanguage, social network analysis,
quantitative analysis, type modification, vantage theory, the centrality of
social norms of inference, place-names and heraldry. In the process, new
insights are offered into the following languages: English, French,
Portuguese, Sorbian, Burarra, Cape Breton Gaelic, Tzotzil, and others. 

Table of contents

Preface vii-viii  

Dr Robert E. MacLaury 1944-2004: An Appreciation 
Terri MacKeigan and Christopher Sinha ix-x  

Abbreviations  xi  

Section 1: Theoretical and methodological approaches  

The semantics of colour: A new paradigm 
Anna Wierzbicka 1-24  

A grammatical network of Tzotzil-Mayan colour terms 
Terri MacKeigan and Stephen Q. Muth 25-36  

Quantitative linguistics in the study of colour terminology: A research report 
Adam Paw?owski 37-55  

Basic colour terms and type modification: Meaning in relation to function,
salience and correlating attributes 
Anders Steinvall 57-71  

Beyond colour: Modelling language in colour-like ways 
Adam Glaz 73-87  

The normativity of colour 
Barbara Saunders 89-99  

Section 2: Modern languages   

Age-related differences in the basic colour vocabulary of French 
Isabel Forbes 101-109  

Towards a general description of the semantic field of colour in European
Portuguese 
Margarita Correia 111-125  

Evolving secondary colours: Evidence from Sorbian 
Andrew Hippisley and Ian Davies 127-143  

Colour terms in Nova Scotia 
Heidi Ann Lazar-Meyn 145-157  

Section 3: Historical approaches   
Political upheaval and a disturbance in the colour vocabulary of Early English 
Carole P. Biggam 159-179  

Colours of the landscape: Old English colour terms in place-names 
Carole Hough 181-198  

The medieval gaze at grips with a medieval world 
Michael J. Huxtable 199-217  

Index 219-223  

"Progress in Colour Studies brings together contributions on a broad range
of topics, from cognitive and linguistic theories of colour to analyses of
usage in medieval and contemporary settings. The volume is particularly
valuable for its varied theoretical perspectives and for studies of colour
term systems that are undergoing significant change."  -John Baines, 2006 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Burarra (bvr)
                     English (eng)
                     French (fra)
                     Gaelic, Scottish (gla)
                     Tzotzil, Huixtán (tzu)
                     Sorbian, Lower (dsb)
                     Sorbian, Upper (hsb)

Written In: English  (eng)

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