New Directions in Colour Studies -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Preface -- References -- Abbreviations -- Section 1. Theoretical issues -- Illusions of colour and shadow -- References -- Universal trends and specific deviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A comparison of two language families -- 3. Wildcard terms -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Touchy-Feely colour -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of an intuition -- 3. Secret life of an intuition -- 4. Touch-like Vision -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Juri Lotman's semiotic ideas on language -- 3. Very short critique of the theory of basic colour terms -- 4. Semiotic theory of the basic colour terms -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Section 2. Languages of the world -- Preface to Section 2 -- Basic colour terms of Arabic -- 1. Background and aims -- 2. Elicited lists -- 3. Colour naming -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Red herrings in a sea of data -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Scots and Scottish English -- 3. Dictionary evidence of the use of red in Scots -- 4. The SCOTS corpus -- 5. Red in SCOTS -- 6. Delving deeper: quantitative to qualitative -- 7. Red in compounds -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Towards a diachrony of Maltese basic colour terms -- 1. Preliminaries -- 2. The basic colour terms of Maltese -- 3. The non-basic colour system of Maltese -- 4. Formal aspects of Maltese colour terms -- 5. The evolution of blue in Arabic and Maltese -- 6. From brightness to hue in relation to blue in Arabic and Maltese -- References -- Rosa Schätze - Pink zum kaufen -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History and previous investigations -- 2.1 Rosa -- 2.2 Pink -- 3. Pink and rosa in magazines -- 3.1 A corpus study -- 3.2 Methodology -- 4. Results.

4.1 Overall frequency -- 4.2 Objects of application -- 4.3 'Wrong' applications -- 4.4 Hyponymy relations -- 4.5 Scale perception -- 4.6 Collocations -- 4.7 Integration into the German language -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Kashubian colour vocabulary -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Candidate basic colour terms in Kashubian -- 3. Psychological salience of Kashubian colour terms -- 4. Kashubian non-basic colour terms -- 5. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs related to the basic colour adjectives -- 6. A final word -- References -- Colour terms -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Colour terms as words -- 3. Colour terms as components of linguistic constructions -- 4. Modern Russian: Lexical development of colour terms -- 4.1 Objects as referents of new colour terms -- 4.2 Descriptive meanings of colour terms as denominal adjectives -- 5. Usage constraints of the emerging Russian colour terms: Driven by the noun taxonomic class -- 5.1 Koričnevyj: The Russian case of "browns" -- 5.2 Linguistic behaviour of Russian highly frequent non-basic colour terms -- 5.3 Linguistic behaviour of the Russian colour term 'new-comers' -- 6. Conclusions -- References -- Preliminary research on Turkish basic colour terms with an emphasis on blue -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Subjects -- 4. Stimuli -- 5. Results -- 5.1 The list task -- 5.2 The colour naming task -- 5.3 Combined analysis -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Terms for red in Central Europe -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methods and data -- 3. Hungarian and Czech BCTs with emphasis on red -- 4. A note on etymology -- 5. Collocations and connotations -- 6. The hypothesis: An areal phenomenon in Central Europe -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Section 3. Colour in society -- Preface to Section 3 -- Colours in the community -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bynames -- 3. Surnames -- 4. Scottish surnames.

5. Present-day bynames -- 6. Colour terms -- 6.1 Brown -- 6.2 Red -- 6.3 Fair/Grey -- 6.4 Black -- 7. Conclusion -- References -- Hues and cries -- 1. Primary colours: Giotto's joy -- 2. A kind of blue -- 3. Colour on colour -- 4. Conclusion: pain in colour -- References -- Colour appearance in urban chromatic studies -- 1. Contextual relativity of colours -- 2. Colour appearance -- 2.1 Material, texture and surface -- 2.2 Distance -- 2.3 Light and shadow -- 2.4 Natural and artificial light -- 3. Colour appearance and cities' identities -- References -- Aspects of armorial colours and their perception in medieval literature -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Heraldry and the herald -- 3. Colouring chivalric identity -- 4. Colouring identity in medieval romance -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Warm, cool, light, dark, or afterimage -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Embodied color and background -- 2.1 Figure/Ground alignment -- 2.2 Vantage theory -- 2.3 BCTs, prototypes to polysemy -- 3. Study objective -- 4. Methodology - study tasks -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Study design -- 4.3 Sequence and timing -- 5. General study results -- 5.1 warm/cool and light/dark compared to hue results -- 5.2 After-image color in relation to positive and negative assessment -- 5.3 General research results -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- The power of colour term precision -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Some necessary definitions -- 3. People's knowledge of ECT meaning -- 4. Lexical meaning - a cognitive linguistic perspective -- 5. The travelogue texts and their time -- 6. Some quantitative data: Colour term types and their density -- 7. Object domains and the precision of colour terms -- 8. The effects of non-basic colour terms in texts -- 9. Concluding discussion -- References -- Primary sources -- Secondary sources -- Categorical perception of colour -- Preface to Section 4.

Investigating the underlying mechanisms of categorical perception of colour using the event-related potential technique -- 1. Introduction to the debate -- 2. The ERP approach -- 2.1 Fonteneau and Davidoff (2007): Unattended colour change -- 2.2 Holmes et al. (2009): Attended colour change -- 2.3 Liu et al. (2009): Hemispheric asymmetries -- 2.4 Clifford et al. (2009): Infant effects -- 2.5 Thierry et al. (2009): Effects of colour language -- 3. Summary -- References -- Category training affects colour discrimination but only in the right visual field -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Overview -- 1.2 Background -- 1.3 The current study -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Training phase -- 2.3 Target detection task -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Training results -- 3.2 Target detection results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Effects of stimulus range on color categorization -- 1. Introduction: Color categorization and range effects -- 2. Experiments 1a, b and c -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Experiment 1a: Apparatus, stimuli and design -- 2.3 Experiments 1b and 1c: Apparatus, stimuli, design and procedure -- 2.4 Results of experiments 1a, 1b and 1c -- 3. Categorical responses -- 3.1 Main effects -- 3.2 Condition by stimulus interaction. -- 3.3 Experiment by stimulus interaction. -- 4. Response times -- 4.1 Main effect -- 4.2 Condition by stimulus interaction. -- 5. Discussion -- 5.1 Summary of experiments and results -- 5.2 Stimulus range and color categorization -- References -- Section 5. Individual differences in colour vision -- Preface to Section 5 -- Colour and autism spectrum disorders -- 1. Background -- 2. The impact of colour on reading speed, visual discrimination and atypical behaviour -- 3. Perception and discrimination of colour in ASD -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Red-Green dichromats' use of basic colour terms -- 1. Background.

2. R-G dichromats' use of BCTs: Partial information -- 2.1 Naming of surface colour prototypes -- 2.2 Are people diagnosed as dichromats true dichromats? -- 2.3 Some methodological considerations -- 3. A global view of BCT use in macular dichromats -- 3.1 Best exemplar task results -- 3.2 Mapping task results -- 4. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Synaesthesia in colour -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phenomenonology of colour synaesthesia -- 3. The continuity hypothesis of synaesthesia -- 3.1 Experiencing colours when reading -- 3.2 Experiencing colours from touch -- 4. Conclusions -- References -- Towards a phonetically-rich account of speech-sound → colour synaesthesia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Existence and prevalence of speech-sound → colour synaesthesia in relation to grapheme-colour synaesthesia -- 3. Which parameters of speech are involved in speech-colour mappings? -- 3.1 Parameters in the analysis of speech -- 3.2 Vowels -- 3.3 Consonants and larger speech units -- 3.4 Voice characteristics -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Perceiving "grue" -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Materials and methods -- 2.1 Participants, stimuli and display -- 2.2 Categories -- 2.3 Filters -- 2.4 Data analysis -- 3. Results and comparison with previous simulation experiments -- 3.1 Colour-naming frequency -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Filter results are consistent with previous investigations on aged observers -- 4.2 Filter simulations support the lens-brunescence hypothesis -- 4.3 Plausibility of lens-brunescence-effect appearance during lifetime -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Section 6. Colour preference and colour meaning -- Preface to Section 6 -- References -- Age-dependence of colour preference in the U.K. population -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Quantitative studies of colour preference -- 3. A new colour preference model -- 4. Preference across ages.

4.1 Aim of this study.