Jones German Colour Terms

A study in their historical evolution from earliest times to the present
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-90-272-7202-7
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 119, 677 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in the History of the Language Sciences

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, William Jervis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Theoretische Linguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
Preface
Part 1. Colour linguistics from a German perspective
Part 2. Cultural aspects of colour naming and inventorisation in German
Part 3. Linguistic aspects of German colour lexis
Abbreviations
Bibliography. Primary sources
Bibliography. Secondary sources
Appendix A. Colour lists in early classified lexia
Appendix B. Extract from Christoph Arnold (1627–1685),Kunst-spiegel (1649)
Appendix C. Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817),Ausführliches und sistematisches Verzeichnis des Mineralien-Kabinets des ... Herrn Karl Eugen Pabst von Ohain (Freiberg, Annaberg, 1791–2)
Appendix D. Selected lists of artists' colours
Index