Dec 15
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Title: The Semantics of Colour
Subtitle: A Historical Approach
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6633840/The%20Semantics%20of%20Colour/?site_locale=en_US
Author: Carole P. Biggam
: ISBN: 9780521899925 Pages: 274 Price: U.S. $ 99.00
Abstract:
Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it
possible to retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the
basic principles of modern colour semantics, including the recognition of
basic vocabulary, subsets, specialised terms and the significance of
non-colour features. Each point is illustrated by case studies drawn from
modern and historical languages from around the world. These include
discussions of Icelandic horses, Peruvian guinea-pigs, medieval roses, the
colour yellow in Stuart England, and Polynesian children’s colour terms. Major
techniques used in colour research are presented and discussed, such as the
evolutionary sequence, Natural Semantic Metalanguage and Vantage Theory. The
book also addresses whether we can understand the colour systems of the past,
including prehistory, by combining various semantic techniques currently used
in both modern and historical colour research with archaeological and
environmental information.
1. What is colour?
2. What is colour semantics?
3. Basic colour terms
4. Non-basic and non-standard colour expressions
5. Basic colour categories
6. The evolutionary sequence
7. Different approaches
8. Historical projects: preliminaries
9. Synchronic studies
10. Diachronic studies
11. Prehistoric colour studies
12. Applications and potential.
Dec 15
ChRIS CLÉiRIGhannouncements
Title: Meaning and Humour
Series Title: Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
http://us.cambridge.org
Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/knowledge/isbn/item6636912/Meaning%20and%20Humour/?site_locale=en_US
Author: Andrew Goatly
Paperback: ISBN: 9780521181068 Pages: 380 Price: U.S. $ 35.99
: ISBN: 9781107004634 Pages: 380 Price: U.S. $ 95.00
Abstract:
How are humorous meanings generated and interpreted? Understanding a joke
involves knowledge of the language code (a matter mostly of semantics) and
background knowledge necessary for making the inferences to get the joke (a
matter of pragmatics). This book introduces and critiques a wide range of
semantic and pragmatic theories in relation to humour, such as systemic
functional linguistics, speech acts, politeness and relevance theory,
emphasising not only conceptual but also interpersonal and textual meanings.
Exploiting recent corpus-based research, it suggests that much humour can be
accounted for by the overriding of lexical priming. Each chapter’s discussion
topics and suggestions for further reading encourage a critical approach to
semantic and pragmatic theory. Written by an experienced lecturer on the
linguistics of the English language, this is an entertaining and user-friendly
textbook for advanced students of semantics, pragmatics and humour studies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Meaning in the language system: aspects of form and meaning
3. Semantics and conceptual meaning of grammar
4. Semantics and the conceptual meaning of lexis
5. Personal, social and affective meanings
6. Textual meaning and genre
7. Metaphor and figures of speech
8. Pragmatics, reference and speech-acts
9. Pragmatics: co-operation and politeness
10. Relevance theory, schemas and deductive inference
11. Lexical priming: information, collocation, predictability and humour.
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