Progress in colour studies : cognition, language and beyond

492 Pages·2018·108.312 MB·English

by  Lindsay W. MacDonald (editor), Galina V. Paramei (editor), C. P. Biggam (editor)

Progress in
Colour Studies
Cognition, language and beyond
Edited by
Lindsay W. MacDonald, Carole P. Biggam
and Galina V. Paramei
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Progress in Colour Studies

Progress in Colour Studies
Cognition, language and beyond
Edited by
Lindsay W. MacDonald
University College London
Carole P. Biggam
University of Glasgow
Galina V. Paramei
Liverpool Hope University
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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The PICS conference is held every four years to present the latest research in colour,
especially in linguistics and cognitive psychology.
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Table of contents
Preface ix
Contributors xi
Abbreviations xvii
Emeritus Professor Christian J. Kay 1940–2016 xix
Section 1. Colour perception and cognition
Chapter 1
The colours and the spectrum 5
Jan Koenderink
Chapter 2
Ensemble perception of colour 23
John Maule and Anna Franklin
Chapter 3
The role of saturation in colour naming and colour appearance 41
Christoph Witzel
Chapter 4
Spanish basic colour categories are 11 or 12 depending on the dialect 59
Julio Lillo, Lilia Prado-León, Fernando Gonzalez Perilli, Anna Melnikova,
Leticia Álvaro, José Collado and Humberto Moreira
Chapter 5
Diatopic variation in the referential meaning of the “Italian blues” 83
Galina V. Paramei, Mauro D’Orsi and Gloria Menegaz
Chapter 6
A Color Inference Framework 107
Karen B. Schloss
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Chapter 7
Kandinsky’s colour-form correspondence theory: A cross-cultural
re-investigation 123
Sebastian Walter
Chapter 8
Cross-modal associations involving colour and touch: Does hue matter? 147
Yasmina Jraissati and Oliver Wright
Section 2. The language of colour
Chapter 9
Is it all guesswork? Translating colour terms across the centuries 167
Carole P. Biggam
Chapter 10
ColCat: A color categorization digital archive and research wiki 179
Kimberly A. Jameson
Chapter 11
Unifying research on colour and emotion: Time for a cross-cultural survey
on emotion associations with colour terms 209
Christine Mohr, Domicele Jonauskaite, Elise S. Dan-Glauser,
Mari Uusküla and Nele Dael
Chapter 12
Divergence and shared conceptual organization: A Points-of-View analysis
of colour listing data from fourteen European languages 223
David Bimler and Mari Uusküla
Chapter 13
Colour and ideology: The word for red in the Polish press, 1945–1954 241
Danuta Stanulewicz and Adam Pawłowski
Chapter 14
Black and white linguistic category entrenchment in English 269
Jodi L. Sandford
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Chapter 15
Colour terms in the blue area among Estonian-Russian and
Russian-Estonian bilinguals 285
Olga Loitšenko
Chapter 16
The journey of the “apple from China”: A cross-linguistic study on the
psychological salience of the colour term for orange 301
Victoria Bogushevskaya
Section 3. The diversity of colour
Chapter 17
A theory of visual stress and its application to the use of coloured filters
for reading 315
Arnold J. Wilkins
Chapter 18
Does deuteranomaly place children at a disadvantage in educational
settings? A systematic literature review 341
Beejal Mehta, Paul Sowden and Alexandra Grandison
Chapter 19
Common basis for colour and light studies 357
Ulf Klarén
Chapter 20
Identifying colour use and knowledge in textile design practice 371
Judith Mottram
Chapter 21
An empirical study on fabric image retrieval with multispectral images
using colour and pattern features 391
John Xin, Jack Wu, PengPeng Yao and Sijie Shao
Chapter 22
The effects of correlated colour temperature on wayfinding performance
and emotional reactions 405
Ozge Kumoglu Suzer and Nilgun Olgunturk
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Chapter 23
Colour in the Pompeiian cityscape: Manifestations of status, religion, traffic
and commerce 419
Karin Fridell Anter and Marina Weilguni
Chapter 24
Mapping the Antarctic: Photography, colour and the scientific expedition
in public exhibition 441
Liz Watkins
Subject index 463
Preface
This volume arose from the fourth Progress in Colour Studies (PICS) conference
held at University College London (UCL), 14–16 September 2016. The aim was to
provide a multidisciplinary forum for discussion of recent and ongoing research,
presented so as to be accessible to scholars in various disciplines. We called for
papers on colour studies from any area of interest, including but not limited to the
following topics: perception, cognition, memory, linguistics, psycholinguistics, de-
sign, etc., etc. Participants were encouraged to consider their own specialist colour
expertise in the broader context of colour at the intersection of many disciplines.
The PICS conference series was founded in the then Department of English
Language at Glasgow University by Dr Carole Biggam and the late Professor
Christian Kay, and was held there in 2004, 2008 and 2012. Because of its origin,
PICS has always been orientated towards colour research in language, linguistics
and psychology, and in 2016 the same themes continued to be strong. In addi-
tion there were sessions on colour perception, imaging and design, showing the
pervasive diversity of interests in colour research and application. Altogether
thirty-three oral papers and thirty posters were presented to approximately
eighty delegates over three days. Keynote talks were given by the eminent and
distinguished researchers Professor Jan Koenderink, Professor Semir Zeki, Dr
Kimberly Jameson and Dr Carole Biggam. The whole event seemed to bear out
Ruskin’s assertion that “The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which
love colour the most.”
Out of the PICS conference material we selected thirty-six papers and invited
authors to develop the material into articles of publishable standard. All draft
chapters were rigorously peer-reviewed, with two or three reviewers assigned to
each, and revised by the authors. We separated out eight articles in the field of
environmental colour design, which were published as a special issue (Vol. 19,
2017) of the Journal of the International Colour Association (JAIC). At last we have
twenty-four chapters in this book, grouped into three sections of eight chapters
each. The first section focuses on colour perception and cognition, the second on
the language of colour, while the third gathers together a diverse range of topics
relating to colour.
We would like to thank the members of the organizing committee for PICS16,
consisting of Lindsay MacDonald, Galina Paramei, Lewis Griffin, Katherine