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Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective

Social and cultural factors shape the linguistic perception of colour. At the same time, colour terms co-create the linguistic image of the world, which allows us to interpret reality and profile our statements and beliefs. This paper presents six basic colour terms: white, black, red, green, yellow...

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Main Authors: Golda, Paweł, Jedziniak, Agnieszka, Mężyk, Judyta, Ryszka, Joanna, Uchman, Teresa
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20930/1/51871-198206-1-PB.pdf
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spelling my-ukm.journal.209302023-01-16T06:48:44Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20930/ Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective Golda, Paweł Jedziniak, Agnieszka Mężyk, Judyta Ryszka, Joanna Uchman, Teresa Social and cultural factors shape the linguistic perception of colour. At the same time, colour terms co-create the linguistic image of the world, which allows us to interpret reality and profile our statements and beliefs. This paper presents six basic colour terms: white, black, red, green, yellow, and blue (both as adjectives and as nouns) in the five different linguistic images of the world of the following languages: English, French, Italian, Polish, and Japanese. The methodological framework is based on cultural linguistics theory and the basis of semantics. The study explores denotative and connotative meanings of colour terms with their collocations. The data gathered from monolingual, bilingual, collocation, and phraseological dictionaries is analysed from the lexical-semantic point of view. The paper discusses semantic differences between contrasting cultures, especially in the blue-green and red lexis. Simultaneously, the findings point to transcultural and global aspects of colour meanings. Both the contexts of cultural diversity and of geographic location are emphasised in the colour semantics. Colours as linguistic signs can specify and categorise reality in terms of feelings, mental attitudes, or sensual reactions. The examined words also refer to location, nature, and the human body. The study shows that colour terms are multifunctional units in the linguistic image of the world, both in terms of the analysed languages separately and as an illustration of the cultural community of different ethnic languages. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022-11 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20930/1/51871-198206-1-PB.pdf Golda, Paweł and Jedziniak, Agnieszka and Mężyk, Judyta and Ryszka, Joanna and Uchman, Teresa (2022) Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective. GEMA: Online Journal of Language Studies, 22 (4). pp. 39-58. ISSN 1675-8021 https://ejournal.ukm.my/gema/issue/view/1554
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description Social and cultural factors shape the linguistic perception of colour. At the same time, colour terms co-create the linguistic image of the world, which allows us to interpret reality and profile our statements and beliefs. This paper presents six basic colour terms: white, black, red, green, yellow, and blue (both as adjectives and as nouns) in the five different linguistic images of the world of the following languages: English, French, Italian, Polish, and Japanese. The methodological framework is based on cultural linguistics theory and the basis of semantics. The study explores denotative and connotative meanings of colour terms with their collocations. The data gathered from monolingual, bilingual, collocation, and phraseological dictionaries is analysed from the lexical-semantic point of view. The paper discusses semantic differences between contrasting cultures, especially in the blue-green and red lexis. Simultaneously, the findings point to transcultural and global aspects of colour meanings. Both the contexts of cultural diversity and of geographic location are emphasised in the colour semantics. Colours as linguistic signs can specify and categorise reality in terms of feelings, mental attitudes, or sensual reactions. The examined words also refer to location, nature, and the human body. The study shows that colour terms are multifunctional units in the linguistic image of the world, both in terms of the analysed languages separately and as an illustration of the cultural community of different ethnic languages.
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author Golda, Paweł
Jedziniak, Agnieszka
Mężyk, Judyta
Ryszka, Joanna
Uchman, Teresa
spellingShingle Golda, Paweł
Jedziniak, Agnieszka
Mężyk, Judyta
Ryszka, Joanna
Uchman, Teresa
Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective
author_facet Golda, Paweł
Jedziniak, Agnieszka
Mężyk, Judyta
Ryszka, Joanna
Uchman, Teresa
author_sort Golda, Paweł
title Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective
title_short Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective
title_full Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective
title_fullStr Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective
title_full_unstemmed Colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective
title_sort colour terms in five linguistic images of the world : the semantic perspective
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2022
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20930/1/51871-198206-1-PB.pdf
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