Essays about: "basic colour terms"

Found 2 essays containing the words basic colour terms.

1. 1. Screaming yellow: An exploratory study of how speakers gesture and speak about colour and colour theory

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Thit Leonora Amsen; [2019]
   Keywords : gesture; colour; abstract content; metaphor; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The abstract subject of colour is a widely studied subject in spoken languages. However, very little is known about colour in relation to gesture. A substantial part of the literature on gesture and abstract content is concerned with referential gestures and especially metaphorical mapping. READ MORE

3. 2. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Jessica Presits; [2017]
   Keywords : linguistics; colour semantics; basic colour terms; linguistic relativity; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; piros; vörös; Hungarian; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The topic of Basic Colour Terms (BCT) and their proposed universality has long been a source of debate within linguistics. Whether colour terms (as symbols) fill lexical gaps of presumed universal colour categories (as senses) or not is relevant for the debate regarding linguistic relativity: the hypothesis about the influence of language on the way we think. READ MORE