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The semantics of colour : a historical approach /
"Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What is colour?
- What is colour semantics
- Basic colour terms
- Non-basic and non-standard colour expressions
- Basic colour categories
- The evolutionary sequence
- Different approaches
- Historical projects: preliminaries
- Synchronic studies
- Diachronic studies
- Prehistoric colour studies
- Applications and potential.