German colour terms : a study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present
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German colour terms : a study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present
(Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science, ser. 3 . Studies in the history of the language sciences ; v. 119)
John Benjamins, c2013
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [537]-604) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This monograph provides, for the first time, a comprehensive historical analysis of German colour words from early beginnings to the present, based on data obtained from over one thousand texts.Part 1 reviews previous work in colour linguistics. Part 2 describes and documents the formation of popular colour taxonomies and specialised nomenclatures in German across many periods and fields. The textual data examined will be of relevance to cultural historians in fields as far apart as philosophy, religious symbolism, medicine, mineralogy, optics, fine art, fashion, and dyeing technology.
Part 3 - the core of the work - traces linguistic developments in systematic detail across more than twelve centuries. Special attention is given to the evolving meanings of colour terms, their connotative values, figurative extensions, morphological productivity, and lexicographical registration. New light is shed on a range of scholarly issues and controversies, in ways relevant to German lexicologists and to specialists in other languages, notably French and English.
Table of Contents
- 1. List of figures
- 2. Preface
- 3. Part 1. Colour linguistics from a German perspective
- 4. Part 2. Cultural aspects of colour naming and inventorisation in German
- 5. Part 3. Linguistic aspects of German colour lexis
- 6. Abbreviations
- 7. Bibliography. Primary sources
- 8. Bibliography. Secondary sources
- 9. Appendix A. Colour lists in early classified lexia
- 10. Appendix B. Extract from Christoph Arnold (1627-1685), Kunst-spiegel (1649)
- 11. Appendix C. Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749-1817), Ausfuhrliches und sistematisches Verzeichnis des Mineralien-Kabinets des ... Herrn Karl Eugen Pabst von Ohain (Freiberg, Annaberg, 1791-2)
- 12. Appendix D. Selected lists of artists' colours
- 13. Index
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