German colour terms [[electronic resource] ] : study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present / / William Jervis Jones
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| Autore: |
Jones William Jervis <1941->
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| Titolo: |
German colour terms [[electronic resource] ] : study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present / / William Jervis Jones
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; /Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (677 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 430.1/4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Color |
| Colors, Words for | |
| German language - History | |
| German language - Adjective | |
| Color words | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | German colour terms |
| ISBN: | 90-272-7202-6 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910792147103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Studies in the History of the Language Sciences