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• Colour Terms in Five Linguistic Images of the World: The Semantic Perspective

  Publication

  • P. Golda
  • J. Mężyk
  • J. Ryszka
  • T. Uchman
  • A. Jedziniak

  - GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies - Year 2022

  Social and cultural factors shape the linguistic perception of colour. At the same time, colour terms co-create the linguistic image of the world, which allows us to interpret reality and profile our statements and beliefs. This paper presents six basic colour terms: white, black, red, green, yellow, and blue (both as adjectives and as nouns) in the five different linguistic images of the world of the following languages: English,...

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