Black and white linguistic category entrenchment in English

Sandford, Jodi Louise

doi:10.1075/z.217.14san

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“…This could help explain the overall negative value in the pleasure dimension and a positive value in the arousal dimension in our results. Nevertheless, our result is also in line with a former finding using text sources that the five most common emotions associated with yellow were all negative in the Corpus of Historical American English 58 …”

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Have color representations in books changed over the past 200 years? An empirical analysis based on the Google Books Ngram corpus

Guan,

Shi,

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Color Research & Application

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Color significantly shapes our perceptions of the world, and extensive scientific research has explored various aspects of color, including color linguistics, aesthetics, color and marketing, color therapy, and color psychology. Notably, there has been an increasing interest in understanding the psychological domain of color in recent years. However, limited scholarly attention has been given to studying the changes in color representations and emotions over the decades. To address this gap, we utilized word embedding models of Google Books Ngrams corpus to examine the most strongly associated entities and traits with colors and their evolution in color emotions over 200 years. Analyzing three emotional dimensions—pleasure, arousal, and dominance (PAD), we found that red, green, white, black, orange, purple, brown, and pink were related to the exuberant type (+P + A + D) in PAD emotional space. In contrast, blue was linked to the relaxed type (+P−A + D), and yellow constituted the anxious type (−P + A−D). Among all basic English color terms, the emotion‐driven perceptions associated with white, brown, and pink have significantly changed over time.

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confidence: 93%

“…Nevertheless, our result is also in line with a former finding using text sources that the five most common emotions associated with yellow were all negative in the Corpus of Historical American English. 58…”

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Have color representations in books changed over the past 200 years? An empirical analysis based on the Google Books Ngram corpus

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Shi,

et al. 2023

Color Research & Application

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“…Thus, when it comes to the prepositional slot, in at least two of the three languages under study (French and Dutch), the CCC is not entirely schematic, but partially fixed. However, in spite of the possible variation in the English prepositional slot, the present study limits its scope to English occurrences using with, the most frequent preposition in this specific construction (De Knop, 2014;Sandford, 2014).…”

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“…For instance, De Knop's (2014) study of the CCC in French and German shows that, although jealousy and envy are similar emotions, French speakers tend to associate jealousy with green (vert de jalousie 'green with jealousy'), while German speakers prefer to combine envy with yellow (gelb vor Neid 'yellow with envy'). Considering that the CCC is used in many languages -including English (Sandford, 2014), German (De Knop, 2014), French (De Knop, 2014), and Italian (De Knop & Mollica, 2014) -these findings make us wonder which features may be shared across languages and which language-specific peculiarities characterize the CCC in a variety of languages. Yet very few studies have looked at this construction from a contrastive point of view (exceptions are De Knop, 2014 andMollica, 2014).…”

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“…Even though the three languages under study belong to the Indo-European language family and are typologically closely related, rooted in Western culture, they might not always overlap in terms of colour-emotion associations. Based on the previous literature (Soriano & Valenzuela, 2009;De Knop, 2014;Sandford, 2014), we expect to find differences between Dutch, English, and French, due to cross-linguistic differences in colouremotion associations, that in turn lead to differences in productivity.…”

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The colourful causal construction. A corpus-based cross-linguistic analysis of its form and function in Dutch, English and French

Poncin,

Van Goethem

2023

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Previous research has shown that colours are used in many languages to express emotions. This study aims to provide a cross-linguistic constructional analysis of the Colourful Causal Construction (CCC) (e.g., she is red with anger) in which colour-emotion associations play a central role. A corpus study was conducted using the TenTen web corpora to investigate the formal variation and the lexical-semantic features of this construction in Dutch, English and French, as well as its productivity and potential for intensification. Results show that the CCC fits a similar semi-schematic pattern in the three languages under study. All three languages share the same top three of lexical fillers in the colour slot, namely red, green and white, and the construction expresses a literal/metonymic meaning in approximately 50% of the cases across the three investigated languages. Some colour-emotion associations are shared and used with similar frequencies in all three languages (e.g., red with shame, rood van schaamte, rouge de honte), but striking language-specific preferences also exist (e.g., red with rage, rood van woede vs. vert de rage). In terms of productivity, some colours (e.g., red) impose few semantic restrictions on the emotion-nouns they combine with and hence correlate with a relatively high number of emotion-nouns, while others are only found in fixed collocations (e.g., blue with cold). Moreover, the study suggests that the CCC should be considered a language-specific means of (partially) lexicalized intensification.

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Colour Naming: Semantics of the Colour White in English and Polish Lexicon

Uberman¹

2023

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In the present paper, an analysis is made of the colour names offered for the different shades and hues of the white palette of Dulux paints in English and Polish. The names are created by associations with colour names within the colour category WHITE but also with other domains of human experience, which are positively and naturally valued. The symbolism of the colour term is also reflected in some exemplars.

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Black and white linguistic category entrenchment in English

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Have color representations in books changed over the past 200 years? An empirical analysis based on the Google Books Ngram corpus

Have color representations in books changed over the past 200 years? An empirical analysis based on the Google Books Ngram corpus

The colourful causal construction. A corpus-based cross-linguistic analysis of its form and function in Dutch, English and French

Colour Naming: Semantics of the Colour White in English and Polish Lexicon

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