Colour in Culture
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Examples are units of knowledge that illustrate an interesting fact or observation about an object of study.
- Introduce the argument underlying the example
- What relationships are addressed?
- How does this example reflect the exhibition goals
- What is the current state of thinking
- How does a more-than-human framing challenge the status-quo
- Include representative examples as images, diagrams, videos, quotes, etc.
- How would this re-framing benefit life, scholarship, practice, etc.?
- What exhibition components relate to this example?
- Examples
- Stories
- Relationships
- Social, cultural, and economic factors influence use of colour terms.
- A novel's language is influenced by these factors (mentioned elsewhere)
- Still, colour words hold universal associations.1
- Bias in Language
Colour as Metaphor
Colour in Literature
Dyes
Colour pigments: A group of colour swatches numbered according to name. Image by Kalacheva School.
Footnotes
Biggam, Carole P. “Prehistoric Colour Semantics: A Contradiction in Terms.” In Colour Studies: A Broad Spectrum, edited by Wendy Anderson, Carole P. Biggam, Carole Hough, and Christian Kay, 3–28. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014.˄
Marc Alexander and Christian Kay, “The Spread of RED in the Historical Thesaurus of English,” in Colour Studies, ed. Wendy Anderson et al. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2014), 126–39, https://doi.org/10/dvk3.˄
Casson, Ronald W. “Russett, Rose, and Raspberry: The Development of English Secondary Color Terms.” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 4, no. 1 (1994): 5–22. https://doi.org/10/c8tmdh.˄
Rachael Louise Hamilton, “Colour in English: From Metonymy to Metaphor” (PhD, University of Glasgow, 2016).˄
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