Jeannette Littlemore (University of Birmingham), Marianna Bolognesi (Universita di Bologna), Nina Julich-Warpakowski (Germany Universitat Erfurt)

Metaphor, Metonymy, the Body and the Environment

An Exploration of the Factors That Shape Emotion-Colour Associations and Their Variation Across Cultures

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Produktbeschreibung

This Element finds strong metaphorical connections between the valence of the emotion and the lightness of the associated colours and between the intensity of an emotion and the saturation level of the associated colours. It explores the different ways in which humans express emotions through colour, and the reasons why they do so.

Produktdetails

• Elements in Cognitive Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 75
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 164g
• ISBN-13: 9781009045582
• ISBN-10: 100904558X
• Artikelnr.: 68208009

Inhaltsangabe

1. What are emotions and why do we associate them with colours?; 2.
Methodology; 3. What are the strongest emotion-colour associations overall,
and how do word-colour associations vary according to linguistic
background?; 4. How do emotional valence and intensity map onto colour
lightness and saturation, and how do these relationships vary according to
the linguistic background of the participants and the gender of the
prompt?; 5. What reasons do people provide for emotion-colour associations
and how do these reasons vary according to linguistic background, the
emotion being discussed, and the colour being selected? if an association
is bodily-related is it more likely to be widely shared?; 6. General
Conclusions; References.