Table of Contents

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.

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This book presents the basic principles of modern colour semantics and discusses the crucial differences between modern and historical colour studies.

About the Author

C. P. Biggam is a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Director of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey, and a committee member for the Progress in Colour Studies conference series. She has published books and articles on semantics, Anglo-Saxon studies, colour studies and plant-names.