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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792147103321

Autore

Jones William Jervis <1941->

Titolo

German colour terms [[electronic resource] ] : study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present / / William Jervis Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; /Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013

ISBN

90-272-7202-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (677 p.)

Collana

Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Series III, Studies in the history of the language sciences, , 0304-0720 ; ; v. 119

Disciplina

430.1/4

Soggetti

Color

Colors, Words for

German language - History

German language - Adjective

Color words

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Colour linguistics from a German perspective -- pt. 2. Cultural aspects of colour naming and inventorisation in German -- 3. Linguistic aspects of German colour lexis.

Sommario/riassunto

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.Pa