Foreword vii
Luisa Maffi
Color naming research in its many forms and guises xi
Don Dedrick and Galina V. Paramei
Full color illustrations xvii
I. Color perception
Hue categorization and color naming: Cognition to language to culture 3
Marc H. Bornstein
Individual and population differences in focal colors 29
Michael A. Webster and Paul Kay
Russian color names: Mapping into a perceptual color space 55
Olga V. Safuanova and Nina N. Korzh
Russian ‘blues’: Controversies of basicness 75
Galina V. Paramei
Color term research of HugoMagnus 107
Roger Schöntag and Barbara Schäfer-Prieß
II. Color cognition
Categories of desaturated-complex color: Sensorial, perceptual,
and cognitive models 125
Robert E. MacLaury
Relative basicness of color terms: Modeling and measurement 151
Seija Kerttula
The ambiguity of brightness (with special reference to Old English)
and a new model for color description in semantics 171
Carole P. Biggam
Color naming in Estonian and cognate languages 189
Vilja Oja
Color terms in ancient Egyptian and Coptic 211
Wolfgang Schenkel
Basic color term evolution in light of ancient evidence from the Near East 229
Basic color terms from Proto-Semitic to Old Ethiopic 247
Maria Bulakh
Towards a history and typology of color categorization in colloquial Arabic 263
Alexander Borg
Japanese color terms, from 400 CE to the present: Literature, orthography,
and language contact in light of current cognitive theory 295
James M. Stanlaw
Color terms in Colonia Tovar, an Alemannisch Enclave in Venezuela 319
Albert C. Heinrich
Mien (Yao) color terms 325
Theraphan L-Thongkum
III. Color semiosis
The semiosis of Swedish car color names: Descriptive and amplifying functions 337
Gunnar Bergh
Colors and emotions in English 347
Anders Steinvall
Linguistic construal of colors: The case of Russian 363
Ekaterina V. Rakhilina
Color words in painting descriptions: Some linguistic evidence
for entity-like conceptualization 379
Alena V. Anishchanka
Metaphors as cognitive models in Halkomelem color adjectives 395
Brent D. Galloway
Prototypical and stereotypical color in Slavic languages: Models based on folklore 405
Lyudmila Popovic
Color terms in fashion 421
Dessislava Stoeva-Holm
To have color and to have no color: The coloring of the face in the Czech
linguistic picture of the world 441
Irena Vaˇnková
Gender, age, and descriptive color terminology in some Caucasus cultures 457
Liudmila V. Samarina
Towards a new topology of color 467
Barbara Saunders
Index 481
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