This investigation considers how basic color terms (BCTs) represent a semantic frame that is defined through our embodiment of vision specific to English. Color terms have multiple meanings and take on positive or negative connotations depending on how they are conceived in the object/surround association. Each BCT has one or more conventionalized associations with an emotion (with the exception of orange). Starting with the understanding that certain color terms are found in the linguistic color construction [X [BECOME] Y with Z], as in He turned red with anger; the questions posed in this study are the following: Are the color-emotion constructions well entrenched? And if so, to what degree are they accessible to an English speaker? What emotions and colors are associated together in English?
Turn a Color with emotion: a linguistic construction of color in English
SANDFORD, Jodi Louise
2014
Abstract
This investigation considers how basic color terms (BCTs) represent a semantic frame that is defined through our embodiment of vision specific to English. Color terms have multiple meanings and take on positive or negative connotations depending on how they are conceived in the object/surround association. Each BCT has one or more conventionalized associations with an emotion (with the exception of orange). Starting with the understanding that certain color terms are found in the linguistic color construction [X [BECOME] Y with Z], as in He turned red with anger; the questions posed in this study are the following: Are the color-emotion constructions well entrenched? And if so, to what degree are they accessible to an English speaker? What emotions and colors are associated together in English?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
