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New directions in colour studies /

Colour studies attracts an increasingly wide range of scholars from across the academic world. Contributions to the present volume offer a broad perspective on the field, ranging from studies of individual languages through papers on art, architecture and heraldry to psychological examinations of as...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Biggam, C. P. (Carole Patricia), 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • New Directions in Colour Studies; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Section 1. Theoretical issues; Illusions of colour and shadow; Universal trends and specific deviations; Touchy-Feely colour; Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman; Section 2. Languages of the world; Preface to Section 2; Basic colour terms of Arabic; Red herrings in a sea of data; Towards a diachrony of Maltese basic colour terms; Rosa Schätze
  • Pink zum kaufen; Kashubian colour vocabulary; Colour terms.
  • Preliminary research on Turkish basic colour terms with an emphasis on blueTerms for red in Central Europe; Section 3. Colour in society; Preface to Section 3; Colours in the community; Hues and cries; Colour appearance in urban chromatic studies; Aspects of armorial colours and their perception in medieval literature; Warm, cool, light, dark, or afterimage; The power of colour term precision; Categorical perception of colour; Preface to Section 4; Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the event-related potential technique.
  • Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual fieldEffects of stimulus range on color categorization; Section 5. Individual differences in colour vision; Preface to Section 5; Colour and autism spectrum disorders; Red-Green dichromats' use of basic colour terms; Synaesthesia in colour; Towards a phonetically-rich account of speech-sound? colour synaesthesia; Perceiving "grue"; Section 6. Colour preference and colour meaning; Preface to Section 6; Age-dependence of colour preference in the U.K. population; Ecological valence and human color preference.
  • Look and learnEffects of lightness and saturation on color associations in the Mexican population; Colour and emotion; Colors and color adjectives in the cortex; Section 7. Colour vision science; Preface to Section 7; Chromatic perceptual learning; Unique hues; A short note on visual balance judgements as a tool for colour appearance matching; Index.