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Tretyakova, Irina Y. "Peculiarities of occasional substitution in phraseological units with a colour-component." Verhnevolzhski Philological Bulletin 2, no. 25 (2021): 55–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.20323/2499-9679-2021-2-25-55-63.
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The article is devoted to occasional transformations of phraseological units in the modern Russian language. The relevance of the study is based on the attention of scientists to the problems of variability of language units in speech. The novelty of the study is based on insufficient knowledge about transformation capacity of idioms from various thematic, phraseological and semantic groups and fields. One of the groups unites idioms with the colour-component featuring semantic peculiarities, which determine specific transforming processes. The article studies transformations of phraseological units with the component white by means of substituting the component white by occasional components. Analyzing phraseological semantics, the author regards specific features of the colour-adjective both as a phraseological component and a free lexical unit. It is important to mention that color-words may function as a symbol. The article deals with idioms where a colour-component either represents meaningful semantic elements or conveys a symbolic meaning, or it is excluded from phraseological semantics. To define transformation peculiarities of idioms, the author analyzes component substitutions based on paradigmatic connections among colour-words and on their asystemic connections. The results of the research demonstrate dependence of transformation capacity on the degree acolour-component is involved in forming a phraseological meaning: the less a component participates in forming a phraseological meaning, the more possibilities for transformations are presented in speech and, thus, the higher transformation capacity is.
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Redkozubova, Ekaterina A., and Elena A. Panteleeva. "Secondary Colour Terms in British Beauty Products: Structure, Semantics, Word-formation." Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology 2020, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 67–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2020-3-67-75.
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The article deals with cultural, structural and semantic peculiarities of secondary colour terms used in British beauty products. A secondary colour term may be significant aesthetically, culturally, socially, historically, psychologically and linguistically. Secondary colour terms of beauty products reflect people’s experience, mentality, their interpretations of objective reality, their cultural traditions and language features. Such terms may be both universal and ethnospesific. The largest thematic groups of colour terms under analysis are the following: «colours», «flowers», «natural phenomena», «jewels». Minor thematic groups are «monarch», «sweets», «fauna». The most productive word-formation means are word-composition, affixation, blending, shortening.
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Braisby, Nick, and Bradley Franks. "Semantics versus pragmatics in colour categorization." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20, no. 2 (June 1997): 181–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x97241427.
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We argue that the confusing pattern of evidence concerning colour categorization reported by Saunders & van Brakel is unsurprising. On a perspectival view, categorization may follow semantic or pragmatic attributes. Colour lacks clear semantic attributes; as a result categorization is necessarily pragmatic and context-sensitive. This view of colour categorization helps explain the developmental delay in colour naming.
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Pasechnik, Tatyana B., and Inna G. Savelieva. "What is the Colour of the Feeling (A Case Study of English Idioms with Colour Components)." RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics 10, no. 3 (December 15, 2019): 714–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-2299-2019-10-3-714-721.
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The present article explores English phraseological units with the meaning of emotion that have been fully or partially rethought and have a colour component. The emotive component of the idioms mentioned, is, thus, the object of the present study. In this paper we endeavor to show that the colour nominations which correlated to the concepts of ‘warmth’ and ‘coldness’ define the semantics of the whole idiom which is used for figurative naming human emotions. Looking at the use of colour components in an idiom, we cannot, but consider the key element of an idiom, i.e. idiomaticity, which we understand as the reinterpretation of an expression and the murkiness of its meaning. The article contains the analysis of both idioms which can be traced to free collocations and expressions which are not used in their literal meaning. The group of idioms in question primarily comprises the expressions of murky semantic structure. The examples of colour names exemplify the situation, when reinterpretation can apply no just to a single expression, but also to its components. In this case the colour component of the idiom acquires new semantics, i.e. It no longer means the colour in its literal sense, thus adding the meaning of ‘emotion’ to the semantic structure of the idiom, giving it a new meaning. It is worth pointing out that the number of colour nominations that can be viewed from this perspective is limited. At the same time a huge number of words denoting colours and shades have now emotive meanings whatsoever. However, if we look at other languages, we might find such examples, which in turn can be explained by the fact that people of different cultures perceive the world differently. Language is very good at capturing similarities and differences. The questions raised in the article are of utmost importance as they resonate with the current trends in linguistics, namely with the theory of secondary nomination in various languages and the issues of ideas’ verbalization in phraseological units. Typological and etymological studies of dozens of languages have revealed a set of universal mechanisms in the system of color naming. However, along with universal mechanisms, there are language and culture specific ones. The analysis of such kind gives us a better understanding of this part of the worldview in different cultures.
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Biggam, C. P. "Sociolinguistic aspects of Old English colour lexemes." Anglo-Saxon England 24 (December 1995): 51–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675100004658.
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This paper presents an experimental attempt to investigate the social contexts of certain Old English vocabulary belonging to a particular semantic field, namely that of colour. Sociolinguistic studies are concerned with language variations between social classes, age groups, the sexes and other social groupings, so it is obvious from the outset that this sort of evidence will be difficult to retrieve from a dead language. However, in the case of this particular semantic field, textual information can often be augmented by comparative evidence from the colour semantics of living languages, and by the theories about colour term acquisition and usage developed by linguists and anthropologists.
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Gasharova, Aida R. "Semantics of colour terms in Lezgin folklore." Vestnik of the Mari State University 14, no. 2 (2020): 188–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.30914/2072-6783-2020-14-2-188-194.
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Mileyeva, M. N., and A. S. Nikiforova. "Colour Palette of Adjectives in Latin and English." Prepodavatel XXI vek, no. 3, 2020 (2020): 316–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.31862/2073-9613-2020-3-316-322.
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The article considers color Latin and English adjectives in terms of their semantics and etiology. Indications of adjectives of different colors are illustrated with quotations from works of ancient Roman and Greek writers. Semantic comparisons of the color meanings of Latin adjectives are made against English adjectives in order to reveal usual coincidences or differences. Adjectives of the main color triad denoting black, red and white are analyzed. An attempt is made to explain the causes of these connotations and consider their implementation in the lexical structure of the languages under study.
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Garunova, Saida Magomedkhanovna, Robert Chenciner, and Magomedhan M. Magomedhanov. "COLOUR AND SYMBOLISM IN DAGHESTAN FOLKLORE LITERATURE AND CARPETS - A FRESH LOOK." History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Caucasus 14, no. 3 (December 15, 2018): 109–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.32653/ch143109-126.
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In the present article, we study more issues of color semantics and symbols. Our research is based on the analysis of mainly Daghestani folklore and ethnographic materials and colour characteristics of traditional textiles, including carpets. We examined two methods of gathering evidence about associations of colours in the minds of people. The first is to use some kind of psychological tests. The second is to use ideas incorporated in folklore and folk litera- ture, as handed down through generations of narrators and listeners. During this process, successive narrators have unconsciously filtered the material to ensure its relevance to their audience. This is clearly an indirect meth- od: nobody actually answers the questions from today’s experimenter, so any colour associations must be inferred from the context. Colours in oral tradition were considered, not in isolation, but rather in contrasting pairs or in sequences. It was found that a specific colour could have different associations in different conditions, and that generally the associations were more abstract than concrete. In surviving woolen rugs and felts and silk embroideries, colours appear to be linked with availability of dyes or decorative preferences rather than symbolism.
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Kauppinen-Räisänen, Hannele, and Marie-Nathalie Jauffret. "Using colour semiotics to explore colour meanings." Qualitative Market Research: An International Journal 21, no. 1 (January 8, 2018): 101–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qmr-03-2016-0033.
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Purpose The impact of colour is acknowledged within the marketing field. However, research on colour communication is limited, with most prior studies focusing on pre-defined meanings or colour associations. The purpose of this paper is to reveal insights into colour meaning and propose an alternative view to understanding colour communication. Design/methodology/approach The study takes a conceptual approach and proposes Peircean semiotics to understand colour communication. The proposed framework is applied to analyse a set of colour meanings detected by prior colour research. Findings The study elucidates the underlying mechanism of how colour is read and interpreted in various marketing activities, and how meaning is conveyed. This study addresses this mechanism by identifying colour semantics and colour as a symbolic, iconic and indexical sign. Research limitations/implications The study contributes to the scholarly knowledge of colour in marketing. It enriches the understanding of how consumers interpret representations of single visual signs expressed in contexts such as products, brands and brand packaging to make informed product decisions. Practical implications By understanding consumer interpretation as a stage in the communication process, marketers can develop more informed marketing activities to communicate the intended meanings. This may well strengthen the brand identity and contribute to the perceived brand value. Originality/value By elaborating on how colours convey meanings and the mechanism that explains such meanings, this study demonstrates that colour meaning is far more than mere association. The study contributes to the current knowledge of colour by facilitating a deeper understanding of how consumers interpret representations of single visual cues expressed in various contexts.
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Gieroń-Czepczor, Ewa. "Gloomy Images of Yellow and Żółty in a Corpus-Based Cognitive Study." Research in Language 11, no. 4 (December 1, 2013): 405–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rela-2013-0006.
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Abstract The paper reports on a comparative corpus-based semantic analysis of one colour term as it is used in two languages: English yellow and Polish żółty. The investigation of central and peripheral meanings, based on analyses of corpus concordances draws upon the methodology and constructs of cognitive linguistics, such as prototype-based categories, domains, conceptual metonymy and metaphor. The first objective of this parallel study is to determine the prototypical reference points for yellow and żółty, followed by descriptions of those motivations and mechanisms of meaning extensions which lead to ‘figurative’ usages. The results are tentatively suggested in the form of a general network of related meanings, the entrenchments of which are established on the basis of frequencies attested in samples of 1,500 citations. The outcomes confirm a conceptual proximity reflected in the semantics of these colour terms, which seems to be - perhaps surprisingly - incongruous with the popular association of yellow/żółty with the sun. As the evidence provided by the British National Corpus and the Polish Scientific Publishers' corpus (PWN) reveals, the central and peripheral readings are inspired by the imagery of autumnal and physiological changes, while the semantics of both yellow and żółty reflect the significant influence of cultural factors, unparalleled in the polysemies of the other five basic colour terms.
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Volkova, M. V. "Terminologization of coloronyms in French scientific chemical discourse: comprehensive analysis." Professional Discourse & Communication 2, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 65–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2687-0126-2020-2-3-65-84.
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Contemporary scientific discourse of chemistry is one of the fastest developing independent types of professional scientific communication. It is currently undergoing evolutionary transformation due to a number of extralinguistic factors. Terminologization of coloronyms (i.e. lexemes with the semantics of colour) contributes to never ending replenishment of the vocabulary of scientific-chemical communication. This paper is devoted to the study of current evolutionary trends concerning coloronyms in the French scientific-chemical discourse of the XXIst century. The author defines the notion of a coloronym and analyzes main transformations of colour terms in scientific-chemical discourse from the viewpoint of various linguistic aspects, e.g. etimology, semantics, morphological structure, syntax. The aim of the paper is to describe modern specificity of terminologization of coloronyms to further investigate evolutionary changes in French scientific-chemical discourse. Empirical material of the study comprises fragments of written discourse taken from specialized websites, connected with colour industry (factories “Le Moulin à Couleurs” and “Ressource Peintures”, antique evaluation office “Cabinet Portier et Associés”, dyestuff production company “Terres et Couleurs”). The author also uses illustrative examples including lexical units from scientific publications in chemistry that can be found in the digital archive “L’actualité chimique”. The study employs such methods as analysis of dictionary definitions, etymological, component, structural-semantic analyses. Based on the complex analysis of terminologization of coloronyms, the author singles out major tendencies in the development of colour terms in scientific-chemical discourse. Etymological analysis of coloronyms helps to follow all the steps in their semantic development in scientific-chemical communication. From the viewpoint of morphological structure, there are two diametrically opposite tendencies to simplification of the existing forms of coloronyms and at the same time to formation of new forms by making them more complex. As far as syntax is concerned, the author highlights the tendency to a wide variety of syntactical functions, performed by coloronyms.
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Charitonidis, Chariton. "Colour verbs in Modern Greek: A cognitive approach." Word Structure 7, no. 2 (October 2014): 125–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/word.2014.0063.
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This paper gives an outlook on how the coordination between phonology and semantics in verb derivation may look, and which constraints the distinction between possible/established, possible/novel, and not possible/forced verbs can be mapped onto. The object of investigation are the colour -ízo verbs in Modern Greek. The analysis is mainly based on the studies by Berlin & Kay (1969) , Kay & McDaniel (1978) , and Kay & Maffi (1999) on basic colour terms. The colour verbs in Modern Greek are compared with the English colour verbs. It is shown that systematic gaps linked to the causative/inchoative paradigm of -ízo verbs are due to the semantics of the base rather than deficiencies in the base's morphophonological character. The lower the evolutional stage that a base can be fitted to, the more likely an -ízo derivative will be produced.
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Ulusoy, Begüm, Nilgün Olguntürk, and Rengin Aslanoğlu. "Colour semantics in residential interior architecture on different interior types." Color Research & Application 45, no. 5 (May 21, 2020): 941–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/col.22519.
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Andreeva, Lyudmila Anatol'evna, Ol'ga Fedorovna Khudobina, and Tat'yana Aleksandrovna Moldanova. "Semantics of Colour Naming in the Khanty, Mansi and Russian Languages." Filologičeskie nauki. Voprosy teorii i praktiki, no. 6 (June 2020): 249–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2020.6.47.
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Dedrick, Don. "The semantics of colour: A historical approach by Carole P. Biggam." Language 89, no. 4 (2013): 951–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lan.2013.0064.
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Vejdemo, Susanne, Carsten Levisen, Cornelia van Scherpenberg, þórhalla Guðmundsdóttir Beck, Åshild Næss, Martina Zimmermann, Linnaea Stockall, and Matthew Whelpton. "Two kinds of pink: development and difference in Germanic colour semantics." Language Sciences 49 (May 2015): 19–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.07.007.
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Afanaseva, Evdokia N. "Development of Semantics of Colour Terms ÿrÿŋ and маŋаn in the Yakut Language as Evidence of Language Contacts." NSU Vestnik. Series: Linguistics and Intercultural Communication 18, no. 1 (2020): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7935-2020-18-1-45-56.
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The article deals with the semantics of the terms ӱrӱŋ and maŋan denoting white colour in the Yakut language. The aim of the article is to study the development of the words. The research material is based on lexicographical sources and the text of the epic poem – Olonkho. The novelty of this work is the comparative analysis of the Yakut colour terms with the South Siberian and Manchu-Tungus languages and establishment of their relationships. Two words having different origin and nature reflect different stages of language development and its historical connections. The term ӱrӱŋ dates back to ancient Eastern Turkic languages and has a sacred nature associated with early beliefs. The lexeme has a fixed distribution and retains the semantic structure. The adjective ӱrӱŋ has a great word-formation and phraseological potential; it is a component of complex words, pair-words and phraseological units. As in the Old Turkic language, the word performs the function of a noun. In the text, it acts as a permanent epithet to the word kӱn ‘sun’. Compared to the word ӱrӱŋ the term maŋan is an innovation, borrowed from the Mongolian language in connection with horse-breeding culture. Another loanword chaɤān is rarely used. Not only the adjective, but also the verb manxaix was borrowed from Mongolian into Yakut. In the adjective there was a semantic shift; in the Yakut language the meaning ‘white’ is updated, and the meaning ‘with an asterisk on the forehead’ fades into the background. In combination with other adjectives and nouns, the word maŋan forms compound color names that express different shades of white, as well as its saturation and brightness. The word maŋan has considerably expanded the area of use, replacing in some cases the function of the adjective ӱrӱŋ. In the epic text, the word serves as a permanent epithet of the word xallaan ‘heaven’. The word maŋan connects the Yakut language not only with the Mongolian and Manchu- Tungus languages, but also with the South Siberian languages, Khakass and Tuvan. In the system of colour terms, the word maŋan can be one of the common elements of the Siberian languages.
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Lystsova, Yuliya Aleksandrovna. "PECULIARITIES OF COLOUR TERM SEMANTICS IN V. O. PELEVIN’S POST-MODERNISTIC TEXTS." Philological Sciences. Issues of Theory and Practice, no. 6 (June 2019): 328–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2019.6.69.
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Maryanchik, V. A., and L. V. Popova. "Semantics of Adjectives in the Story «Wooden Horses» by F. A. Abramov (To the 100th Anniversary of the Birth)." Russian language at school 81, no. 1 (January 22, 2020): 61–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.30515/0131-6141-2020-81-1-61-66.
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The article investigates the semantic identity and intertextual correlation of adjectives used by F. A. Abramov in his story «Wooden horses». The study focuses on the conceptual significance of adjectives in a literary text. The aim of the research was to discover the role of quality-denoting lexemes (qualitative concepts) in the formation of artistic images and expression of the author’s intention on the basis of a linguistic analysis of adjectives. The most active lexico-semantic groups of adjectives are described: time, human character, material, appearance of objects, human physical appearance, colour and light, intellectual assessment, mirative assessment; and proves the role of adjectives in the conceptualization of literaty images. On the basis of quantitative and semantic analysis and also taking into the account the syntagmatic features of adjectives, the important conceptual semantic fields – «Time» and «Man» – are defined. A detailed analysis of the semantics of adjectives helps to ascertain the correlation of conceptually relevant meanings in the text, as well as to bring the reader’s interpretation closer to understanding the author’s intention.
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Mironov, M. V. "THE WORD ‘BROWN’ AS A HORSE COLOUR NAME: SEMANTICS AND WAYS OF TRANSLATION." Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology 25, no. 4 (December 25, 2019): 127. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2542-0445-2019-25-4-127-133.
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Nemtseva, Kseniya Igorevna. "“LANDSCAPE OF THE SOUL” THROUGH THE COLOURS OF THE WORLD: COLOUR TERM SEMANTICS IN JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ’S CREATIVE WORK." Philological Sciences. Issues of Theory and Practice, no. 12-1 (December 2018): 142–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30853/filnauki.2018-12-1.30.
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Kohnen, Rabea. "Ego sum illa Aethiopissa." Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 142, no. 4 (November 27, 2020): 515–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/bgsl-2020-0042.
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AbstractThis article connects Wolfram’s portrayal of the striking black heathen queen Belakane with contemporary thoughts on the colour black in general and more specifically with concepts of dark skin and race at Wolfram’s time taking their biblical and theological foundations and semantics in regard. Reading Belakanes skin colour as an index and her story as a nod to the biblical Queen of Sheba and her reception history in the commentary tradition on the ›Song of Songs‹, I argue to integrate artistic and courtly, scholarly and theological perspectives to understand and appreciate the idiosyncrasy of Wolfram’s ›Parzival‹ fully.
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Clapp, Lenny. "Indexical Color Predicates: Truth Conditional Semantics vs. Truth Conditional Pragmatics." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 42, no. 2 (June 2012): 71–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cjp.2012.0009.
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Truth conditional semantics is the project of ‘determining a way of assigning truth conditions to sentences based on A) the extension of their constituents and B) their syntactic mode of combination’ (Rothschild and Segal, 2009). This research program has been subject to objections that take the form of underdetermination arguments, an influential instance of which is presented by Travis: … consider the words ‘The leaf is green,’ speaking of a given leaf, and its condition at a given time, used so as to mean what they do mean in English. How many distinct things might be said in words with all that true of them? Many.… Suppose a Japanese maple leaf, turned brown, was painted green for a decoration. In sorting leaves by colour, one might truly call this one green. In describing leaves to help identify their species, it might, for all the paint, be false to call it that.
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Honta, Ihor, Tatiana Pastushenko, and Nataliia Borysenko. "COLOUR COMPONENT IN THE SEMANTICS OF ETHNOPHOBIC TERMS (the case of non-standard American English)." Advanced Education 6, no. 12 (July 3, 2019): 226–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.20535/2410-8286.155214.
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Xia, Zhi Liang. "Electronic Information Products to form the Humanized Design Research." Advanced Materials Research 403-408 (November 2011): 2388–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.403-408.2388.
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Electronic information products based on ergonomics, on the basis of the research in the form in human research and design. From the electronic information products shape colour, modelling, material texture and interface aspects are studied, that "People-Oriented" design idea was fully manifested in person to use electronic devices, functional principle in operating mode, physiological, psychological, product semantics of human concern gives products, electronic equipment, more comfortable and pleasant that the external form of electronic information equipment development direction.
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Shabasheva, Evgeniya A. "BINARY AXIOLOGICAL OPPOSITION IN THE SEMANTICS OF RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH IDIOMS CONTAINING THE COLOUR COMPONENT «RED»." Scholarly Notes of Komsomolsk-na-Amure State Technical University 2, no. 13 (March 30, 2013): 50–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.17084/2013.i-2(13).9.
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Jager, G. "Using Statistics for Cross-linguistic Semantics: A Quantitative Investigation of the Typology of Colour Naming Systems." Journal of Semantics 29, no. 4 (April 16, 2012): 521–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffs006.
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Smita Selot, Latika Pinjarkar, Manisha Sharma,. "IMPROVED SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVAL OF COLOR LOGO IMAGES USING PSO, SOM AND RELEVANCE FEEDBACK TECHNIQUE." INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN INDUSTRY 9, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 634–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/itii.v9i1.181.
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The colour logo identification has one of the key problems of bridging the difference between low-level characteristics and high-level semantics, as the consumer wants to. Relevance feedback (RF) along with self-organizing map (SOM) have been successfully introduced to resolve this void. However, the efficiency of the automated map (SOM) based RF is always low when the feedback sample is limited. This paper proposed a new technology, namely the SOM-SOM-RF that combines SOM-based RF with warm particle optimization, to boost RF performance (PSO). The aim of this proposed technology is to increase SOM-based RF efficiency and also to minimise user encounters with the device by reducing its RF number. On 3000 colour logo pictures, the PSO-SOM-RF was tested. The findings from the tests revealed the high precision of the proposed PSO-SOM-RF.
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Razduev, Aleksey V., and Eugenia G. Sharanova. "Semantic structure of the term and semantic oppositions in musical terminology (drawing on the English and Russian language material)." Current Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics, no. 4(2020) (December 25, 2020): 146–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.29025/2079-6021-2020-4-146-157.
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The analysis of the semantics and semantic oppositions of terminological units is one of the most productive ways to understand the systemic nature of terminological phenomena. The article is devoted to the study of semantic features of English- and Russian-language musical terminological units, namely, to the identification of the semantic structure of terms and semantic oppositions that arise between them. Within the semantic structure of musical terms, in the aggregate of their connections and relationships that form the musical terminological system, the core, semantic periphery and additional semantic area are distinguished and classified according to the presence of these components into uninuclear proper, uninuclear with the periphery and uninuclear with the periphery and additional semantic area. At the first stage, a selection of musical terms in modern English and Russian has been compiled, at the second stage, the semantic structure of terminological units has been analyzed, and at the third stage, the key aspects of nomination have been identified, according to which explicit and implicit oppositions are being formed. The material for the study comprises a selection of the English- and Russian-language musical terminological units with the total volume of 1000 units (500 units of each language), selected by the method of continuous selection from electronic and printed sources, including dictionaries and glossaries, musical notations, monographs, textbooks and manuals, web portals on music topics. The research methods of the English- and Russian-language musical terminological units include the method of continuous selection, methods of component and definition analysis, the method of linguacognitive modelling, as well as techniques of quantitative analysis. Within the framework of the study, three groups of musical terms have been identified depending on their semantic structure: the first group includes uninuclear terminological units with the semantic periphery, the second group includes uninuclear terms proper, and the third group is formed by uninuclear terms with the periphery and additional area of semantics. The first group is predominant in terms of quantity, the number of terms in which is almost 2.5 times more than in the second one, and the third group is represented by a small number of terminological units. There are at least 6 frequent and 12 less frequent key aspects of nomination within the musical terminology. The frequent key aspects of nomination with the help of which explicit oppositions are formed are: «Minor / major», «Volume / pitch», «Direction», «Location (locus)», «Singularity / Multiplicity», «Quantity». Less frequent aspects of nomination are: «Weakness / strength», «Perfection / imperfection», «Colour», «Presence / absence of sound», «Structure», «Quantity / Completeness / Size», «Genre of music», «Material», «Recommendations for performing a piece of music», «Role», «Style of playing an instrument», «Type of musical instrument».
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Dubrovskaya, N. V. "THE SEMANTICS OF THE ATTRIBUTIVE CONSTRUCTIONS WITH THE COLOUR TERM “BLACK” IN THE TAZ DIALECT OF THE SELKUP LANGUAGE." Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin, no. 8 (2018): 69–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.23951/1609-624x-2018-8-69-73.
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Muratova, Rimma T. "Историческое и лексико-семантическое развитие цветообозначения al ‘алый, розовый’ в тюркских языках." Oriental Studies 13, no. 3 (December 24, 2020): 714–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2619-0990-2020-49-3-714-727.
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Introduction. The article examines the color term al ‘pink; scarlet’ in Turkic languages. Goals. The study aims at considering the lexeme in comparative historical and lexical-semantic perspectives. This involves a number of objectives, such as to review and analyze hypotheses on etymology of the word, identify the functioning of the lexeme in ancient and modern languages, determine characteristics of use of the word’s meanings in certain Turkic languages, delineate common Turkic and specific (belonging to a separate subgroup) development trends of the lexeme al. Materials and Methods. To facilitate the latter, an extensive theoretical and source base on Turkic languages is employed: when it comes to origins of the word, special attention is paid to fundamental scientific works on Turkic and Altai etymologies; ancient Turkic, medieval written monuments, lexicographic works on particular Turkic languages are examined to reveal semantic features of the word in ancient and modern languages. In general, the work proves topical due to the absence of any comprehensive study dealing with etymology, development and functioning of the token in Turkic languages. Results. The study reveals that the al lexeme is essentially ancient: scholars have restored its Pre-Turkic (*Āl) and Pre-Altaic (*ŋiōle) forms, with its Nostratic origin identified. The word is frequently traced in written sources of the Turks from earliest monuments. The token al is integral to most Turkic languages, except for the Chuvash, Altai, Tuva, Karachay-Balkar, and Karakalpak ones. In Yakut and Khakass, the lexeme ālaj is perceived as a loanword. Thus, the gloss al was widely used mainly in Western Turkic languages. In ancient and modern Turkic languages, the word al has meanings as follows: ‘scarlet, pink, ruddy’, ‘orange’, ‘brown’, ‘red, bay (horse coat color)’, ‘young’, ‘yellow’, ‘noble’, ‘magical’, ‘bright, motley’, and some substantives ― ‘seal, credential issued by Khans’, ‘rouge’, ‘woman’s headwear’. Conclusions. The ancient Turkic colour term al is (was) not universally distributed in all Turkic languages. The wide (though uneven) use of the word and further development of its semantics occurs in the Kipchak and Oghuz languages where the gloss al has a number of additional connotative and metaphorical meanings.
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Bachun, Liliya. "THE NAME UKRAINE AND ITS VARIABILITY IN UKRAINIAN PROSE ABOUT THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENT OF THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY." EUREKA: Social and Humanities 3 (May 31, 2020): 9–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.21303/2504-5571.2020.001314.
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The article presents an onomastic study of the functioning of the toponym Ukraine in the texts of twenty Ukrainian prose works about the national-liberation movement of the first half of the twentieth century. The basic scientists’ researches of geographical names and influence of individuals and society on their connotative value’s formation have been considered in the article. The importance of influence of social and political events, emotional-psychological experience and writers' world’s perceptions have been determined on the formation of connotative-associative layers on the general-conceptual semantics of the propriative Ukraine. The quantitative uses of variants of the toponym Ukraine in the texts of twenty Ukrainian works, the motivation of the names and their structural features have been established. It has been discovered, that structurally the name Ukraine has been used by writers in the form of a 1-lexeme unit, 2 (3) - component structure and multiplex formations. The name Ukraine in the twenty Ukrainian prose works has been presented in its variants with the attributes by the writers' personal feelings, the State’s territorial features, the governmental system and political regime, the colour sign of governing ideologies, the state symbols and with the attributive-personal noun mother (nanny). The associative-connotative semantics of the toponym Ukraine with its variants has been established.
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Xu, Ji Feng, Han Ning Zhang, and Tian Jian Cui. "Cognition Spaces of Modern Furniture Color Semantics." Applied Mechanics and Materials 361-363 (August 2013): 488–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.361-363.488.
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A quantitative analysis based on SPSS is proposed in this paper for semantics maps of modern furniture color. It is assumed that different color factors could initiate different semantics cognition and feelings and analyze the relationships among all the factors, then access to modern furniture color semantic cognition space mapping, which are used to explain the relationships between modern furniture color semantics and color factors such as hue, tone.
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Stanikūnas, Rytis, Laimonas Puišys, Aldona Radzevičienė, and Henrikas Vaitkevičius. "Colour Preference for Two-Colour Combinations." Psichologija 61 (July 7, 2020): 8–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/psichol.2020.12.
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What determines which colour combinations will be attractive to a person and which will not? Is colour attractiveness only a subjective human experience, or can we predict it based on physical colour parameters? One of the pioneers of the attraction of colour theories was Michel Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889). He distinguished two types of colour harmony – analog colour and contrast – and tried to describe what harmonics are based on physical colour parameters. This was later done by other scientists. Later, semantic evaluation of colours was introduced and factor analysis attempted to identify emotions caused by colours or combinations of colours. The aim of this research is to test whether there is a consistent pattern of judgments of colour combinations under controlled conditions and, if so, to what extent they are influenced by the objective physical characteristics of those combinations. Subjects. The study involved 40 students (20 men, 20 women). All subjects had normal colour vision and were not related to fine art. Research tools. The study used 8 colours: 4 opponent (green, red, yellow and blue) and 4 additional (orange, lettuce, blue and purple). The 28 colour combinations (made up of two different colours) were composed of those 8 colours and printed onto cardboard card where each colour had area of 80 mm x 80 mm. Questionnaire of 40 adjectives consisting of 20 pairs of antonyms were used for semantic colour assessment. Procedure. The investigation was conducted in a dark room. Initially, all 28 cards with colour combinations were placed randomly on a desk lit by a 40 cm high fluorescent lamp (4000K correlated colour temperature). The subject was asked to select one of the cards with the most preferable colour combination, to write its code on the questionnaire and to mark all the epithets in the questionnaire which suits this colour combination. The same procedure was applied to the all other cards. One experiment lasted 35–50 minutes. Results and conclusions. Independent component analysis distinguished 4 dimensions describing colours: pleasure, energy, purple color and strength. Logistic regression analysis was run on colour factor loadings to discriminate colour combinations into two groups: liked and disliked colour combinations. It shows that that colour combination could be predicted as being liked or disliked with 85% probability. Adding physical colour parameters to the regression increases prognostic probability to 92 %. Also a relationship between subjective factors and physical characteristics of colour combinations was found. Pleasure correlates with hue contrast and strength with saturation contrast. It can be argued that the reliability of colour combinations is determined by both subjective and physical factors.
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Zhao, Jiaojiao, Jungong Han, Ling Shao, and Cees G. M. Snoek. "Pixelated Semantic Colorization." International Journal of Computer Vision 128, no. 4 (December 7, 2019): 818–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01271-4.
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AbstractWhile many image colorization algorithms have recently shown the capability of producing plausible color versions from gray-scale photographs, they still suffer from limited semantic understanding. To address this shortcoming, we propose to exploit pixelated object semantics to guide image colorization. The rationale is that human beings perceive and distinguish colors based on the semantic categories of objects. Starting from an autoregressive model, we generate image color distributions, from which diverse colored results are sampled. We propose two ways to incorporate object semantics into the colorization model: through a pixelated semantic embedding and a pixelated semantic generator. Specifically, the proposed network includes two branches. One branch learns what the object is, while the other branch learns the object colors. The network jointly optimizes a color embedding loss, a semantic segmentation loss and a color generation loss, in an end-to-end fashion. Experiments on Pascal VOC2012 and COCO-stuff reveal that our network, when trained with semantic segmentation labels, produces more realistic and finer results compared to the colorization state-of-the-art.
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Wang, Xiao Feng, and Jian Hua Li. "Semantic Color Retrieval of Color Image Based on Fuzzy Clustering." Applied Mechanics and Materials 380-384 (August 2013): 3469–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.380-384.3469.
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As next generation of the web, the semantic web aims at a more intelligent web severing machines as well as people, based on radical notions of information sharing and acquisition. For color image segmentation, semantic color is our focus. One method of color partition is fuzzy clustering which has been widely used in image segmentation. However, the fuzzy clustering algorithm is parameter sensitive, and lack of availability because of its initial focus on physical features. To improve the above problems, a novel fuzzy clustering method based on semantic color retrieval for image segmentation is proposed in this paper. The method is realized by modifying the membership function in the conventional clustering algorithm and by constructing the semantic color retrieval mechanism to achieve the semantic color extraction, which take human visual subjectivity into account in semantics. Experimental results show that the presented method performs more effectively than the previous algorithm.
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Kuryłowicz, Beata. "Rozkosz i cierpienie. O semantycznej ambiwalencji czerwonej róży w młodopolskich tekstach artystycznych." Białostockie Archiwum Językowe, no. 8 (2008): 35–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/baj.2008.08.03.
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The article describes semantic ambivalence of purple rose conditioned by the flower's color that occurs in Young Poland's poems. Semantic connotations of the red color are motivated by prototypical references to blood and fire, which develop in two opposite directions: „happiness", „fullness of life", and „threat", „suffering", „death". The semantics of the red color is shaped analogically and justifies the connotations of rose's „ecstasy" and „suffering". In Young Poland's poetry, erotic sensual love symbolized by purple rose was a source of both ecstasy and happiness as well as pain. Therefore, bipolarity of rose's semantics, which is strongly updated in Young Poland's artistic texts, reflects a multidimensional aspect of love.
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Guðmundsdóttir Beck, Þórhalla, and Matthew James Whelpton. "Samspil máls og merkingar. Um litaheiti í íslensku táknmáli." Orð og tunga 21 (August 15, 2019): 75–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.33112/ordogtunga.21.5.
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Brent Berlin and Paul Kay brought a sea change in semantic studies of colour terms when they published their book Basic Color Terms in 1969. Up to that point the dominant view was that each language represented a unique conceptual organisation of the world, a view supported by the fact that the colour spectrum is a continuum which provides not obvious breaks for the purposes of naming. Despite the many criticisms of their work which have followed, their methodology has proven extremely influential and been widely adopted. The project Evolution of Semantic Systems, 2011–2012, adopted their methodology for a study of colour terms in the Indo-European languages and the Colours in Context project applied the same methods to a study of Icelandic Sign Language. Signed languages diff er in many ways from spoken languages but the results of this study suggest the broad organisation of the colour space is the same in Icelandic Sign Language, Icelandic and British English. The colour space is organised by a few dominant terms, largely the same as Berlin and Kay ́s original basic colour terms. Yet within that broad pattern is considerable microvariation, especially in the spaces between the dominant terms. There the characteristic patt erns of word formation in the language have a clear influence in colour naming strategies.
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Zhumanbekova, Nurkesh Zeynullovna, Yevgeniya Victorovna Bentyaa, and Anargul Dzharbulova. "The figurative idioms of English, German and Kazakh in contrast." Contemporary Educational Researches Journal 8, no. 3 (August 24, 2018): 83–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/cerj.v8i3.589.
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This article discusses the figurative phraseological units, namely the idioms of English, German and Kazakh languages in comparative aspect. It appeals to the phraseology of imagery due to the fact that the imagery - a defining component of semantic derivation and semantics of phraseological units in particular. The main goal is to make a contribution to the theory of phraseology, based on the tradition of comparative phraseology. After determining the subject and object of the research, a brief review of domestic and foreign publications in the field of comparative phraseology the article describes the results of practical analysis of idioms in three languages. The main features of the analyzed units are multi-component structure, stability, idiomaticity that distinguishes them from other expressions. They can be interpreted in two different conceptual levels: in the literal sense, which is the basis of the inner form of a linguistic unit and in a figurative sense. The role of a semantic element between the two levels assumes shaped component values (image component) (Dobrovol’skij, 2009). Phraseological images are of cultural significance and informative, revealing a particular fragment of culture. For example, in the base of the inner form of English idioms “ to show one's true colour” (figurative “to show one's real face”, to show who you are”), of German idiom “ins Fettnapfchen treten (literary “stepping on a pot of lard”; figurative meaning “to step on smb's toes”); of Kazakh idioms “er tokymyn bauyryna aldy” (literary “hug the saddle”; figurative “to be angry” ); shabyna shok tusti( literary “hot coal got to the groin”; figurative “to be nervous”) lay some prototypical situations. In the analysis are used the method of field simulation. The study aims to identify and develop a model describing visual images as elements of the cognitive system. They are variably implemented in the content of figurative means of German, English and Kazakh.
Keywords: imagery; visuality; imagery means; imagery structure
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Palacios Martínez, Ignacio M. "“Quite Frankly, I'm Not Quite Sure That it is Quite the Right Colour.” A Corpus-Based Study of the Syntax and Semantics ofQuitein Present-Day English." English Studies 90, no. 2 (April 2009): 180–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00138380902743153.
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Al-Tamimi, Jinan. "The Semantic Structure of Color Terms in Arabic: A Cognitive Approach." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 11, no. 9 (September 1, 2021): 1025–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1109.07.
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The acquisition of the ability of perceiving and naming colors through language is an important topic in which languages vary and differ. The construction of color concepts and naming them are directly influenced by the culture and environment of each society. This can be noted by observing two aspects: Cognitive Semantics and its effect on the collective mind. This study focuses on the cognitive foundations of color terms in Arabic, and the semantic relation between the color concepts and terms in selected examples from both old and new usage of these color terms in Arabic. The study aims to cover the most dominant semantic components for color terms in the Arabic language, using the cognitive linguistic approach and the descriptive analytics method to determine the structure of cognitive perception of color terms in a language. Furthermore, the study stands on two pillars; the first reveals the way the conceptualization pattern of color terms occurs in Arab mindset displayed through selected examples of theoretical data on cognitive semantics, whereas the second addresses the semantic principle of color classification in Arabic. Finally, the conclusion, confirming the results about the notion that color naming in Arabic is based on the visual images associated with the colors in Arab environment, related to night and day. Hence, the color term becomes connected in the Arab mindset with the visual image, and under each color are colors similar to it in hue.
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Noor Al-Huda Kadhim Hussein, Asst Prof Qasim Abbas Dhayef,. "A Pragmatic-Semantic Study of Colour Symbolism in English and Arabic Literary Texts." Psychology and Education Journal 58, no. 1 (January 1, 2021): 2180–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/pae.v58i1.1095.
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Symbolism in general and colour symbolism in particular have not received the linguists' attention in the same way studied by literary critics. Thus, the present study is an attempt to limit this gap by studying colour symbolism linguistically to answer the following questions: (1) What is the most flouted maxim in colour symbolism in literary texts in English and Arabic? (2) Is colour symbolism context-dependent in literary texts? (3) What are the semantic aspects of colour symbolism in the literary texts selected? Thus, the present study aims at: (1) Pinpointing the most flouted maxim in colour symbolism in literary texts in English and Arabic. (2) Determining whether colour symbolism is context-dependent in literary texts. (3) Investigating he semantic aspects of colour symbolism in the literary texts selected. To achieve its aims, the present study hypothesizes that: (1) The maxim of manner is the most flouted maxim in colour symbolism in English and Arabic literary texts. (2) Colours symbolize different things in different contexts. (3) There are certain semantic aspects for colour symbolism manipulated in the literary texts such as using metaphor and conveying the connotative meaning of colours. Then, in order to achieve the aims of the study and test its hypotheses, the following procedures are adopted: (1) Presenting a theoretical background about colour symbolism in general and colour symbolism from a linguistic point of view. (2) Analyzing (six) extracts of literary texts according to an eclectic model based on Eco’s (1984) model Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language and some semantic aspects. The data of the present study is collected from Nathaniel Hawthorne and Wassini Al-A'erj novels "The Scarlet Letter" and "انثى السراب" Ontha Al Sarab" respectively. The study has come up with certain conclusions that prove the above set hypotheses.
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Stepkin, Vitaliy. "The History of the Creation and Semantics of the Sacred Space of Ust-Medveditskiy Convent Caves in Volgograd Region." Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Serija 4. Istorija. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnoshenija, no. 3 (July 2019): 58–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2019.3.5.
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Introduction. The article presents the caves of Ust-Medveditsky St. Saviour convent in Volgograd region. The relevance of the research issue is in improving the recreational potential of the subject under study. The novelty of the work is in explaining the meaning of cave complex elements and the iconic stone with the image of knee and palm prints. The aim of the work is to study the history of creating the sacred space in the caves of Ust-Medveditsky convent. Herewith the work covers the following issues: 1) considering the history of creating caves by hegumeness Arseniya (Sebryakova); 2) clarification of the semantic meaning of some architectural elements in the cave complex in the context of creating the sacred space in the New Jerusalem of the Don region; 3) recommendations for developing the esthetical component of the caves, which increases the recreational potential for using the caves. Methods. In order to achieve the goals the author uses the structuralsemantic method, which allows to reveal the meaning of separate architectural elements in the caves in the structure of the cave complex. The system-based culturological method and the historical archaeological approach are used to understand the uniqueness of the object against the historical background of the dominating culture. The sources used to fulfill the objective include material ones such as architectural elements of the caves, written ones such as piligrimages, travellers’ notes about visits to the Holy Land, the biography of hegumeness Arseniya (Sebryakova). Analysis and Results. The caves under consideration were created in the second half of the 19th century by hegumeness Arseniya (Sebryakova). There was a sacred space of the Holy Land reconstructed: “Stations of the Cross” and “Sorrowful Way of the Holy Mother”. The stone with the image of knee and palm prints symbolizes the place where the Christ fell down after being arrested. Premise no. 8 with a step can symbolize the Holy Sepulcher with the tomb of Jesus. To improve the recreational potential of Ust- Medveditsky convent it is necessary to control microclimatic conditions, support the cave surface natural stone relief and colour, decorate the key sacred spaces with thematic icons.
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Bayanova, Aleksandra T. "Семантика цветообозначения хар ‘черный’ в фольклорном тексте: лингвокультурологический аспект (на примере калмыцких сказок в записи Г. Й. Рамстедта)." Монголоведение (Монгол судлал) 13, no. 1 (April 26, 2021): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2021-1-96-107.
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Introduction. The article analyzes semantic components and variants of the Kalmyk color term хар ‘black’ in folklore texts. Goals. The study investigates semantics of the color term хар ‘black’ in a linguocultural perspective. Materials. The work explores Kalmyk folktales recorded by the Finnish scholar G. J. Ramstedt during his scientific expedition to the Kalmyk Steppe. Results. The analysis reveals six shades of black and sums up its semantic constituents and variants. Special emphasis is laid on the applied Kalmyk-to-German translation means. Conclusions. The lexeme хар ‘black’ is distinguished by extensive semantics. It serves to denote animal coat and human skin colors. In personal names, it has the meaning of ‘strong, enduring’. The word can also identify an individual’s social status, e.g., хар яста күн ‘commoner’ (lit. ‘a black-boned man’). In most cases the lexeme хар ‘black’ contains negative connotations. The color black designates chthonian symbols (хар цурх ‘black pike’, хар темән ‘black camel’, ут хар күн lit. ‘tall (long) black man’).
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AL AGHBARI, ZAHER. "REGION-BASED SEMANTIC IMAGE CLASSIFICATION." International Journal of Image and Graphics 06, no. 03 (July 2006): 357–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s021946780600229x.
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In the field of content-based image retrieval, there exist a gap between low-level descriptions of image content and the semantic needs of users to query image databases. This paper demonstrates an approach to image retrieval founded on classifying image regions hierarchically based on their semantics (e.g. sky, snow, rocks, etc.) that resemble peoples' perception rather than on low-level features (e.g. color, texture, shape, etc.). Particularly, we consider outdoor images and automatically classify their regions based on their semantics using a support vector machines (SVMs). The SVMs learns the semantics of specified classes from specific low-level feature of the test image regions. Image regions are, first, segmented using a hill-climbing approach. Then, those regions are classified by the SVMs. Such semantic classification allows the implementation of intuitive query interface. As we show in our experiments, the high precision of semantic classification justifies the feasibility of our approach.
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Saysani, Armin. "How the Blind Hear Colour." Perception 48, no. 3 (February 12, 2019): 237–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0301006619830940.
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Crossmodal correspondences between seemingly independent sensory modalities are often observed in normal participants. For instance, colours commonly map consistently onto pure tones. In this study, we investigated colour-tone mapping in both normal trichromats and in people with congenital blindness. Participants were asked to match tones of differing pitch to named colours. In both cases, the tones selected varied consistently with the colour. The blind responses were similar to those of the trichromats, except in the case of red and green; the blind did not differentiate these colours, whereas the trichromats associated red with a higher tone and green with a lower tone. Otherwise, the results are consistent with a well-established association between pitch and lightness, with lighter colours associated with higher tones, and darker colours with lower tones. Because the blind never had any sensory experience of colour, their matching of colour to pitch is most likely based on semantic understanding.
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Panasenko, N. "COLOUR TERMS IN SUDDEN FICTION." Philology at MGIMO 19, no. 3 (October 3, 2019): 131–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2019-3-19-131-138.
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The paper presents the analysis of colour perception and its interpretation in psychology and symbolism; it highlights colour properties and the approaches to colour studies largely in linguistics. One of the features of colours is their ability to express human emotions and feelings, either positive or negative (verbally/ nonverbally), and to create certain atmosphere in the situation abound in colours. Shades of colours can be regarded as a lexico-semantic group formed by adjectives and nouns, which can be simple, derived, and compound words. Short texts include many colour terms expressing such colour properties, as hue, saturation, tone, lightness, intensity; each of them contributes to decoding of some culture-specific features hidden in Sudden fiction. The analysis of Sudden fiction shows that short stories have specific composition, where colour terms perform different functions. Descriptive functions are mainly connected with focal colours and identify objects’ properties. Other functions, such as character-generating, associative, metaphoric, symbolic, semiotic, and culture specific are more complicated. Their identification implies additional knowledge of cultural, social, and historical planes.
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Savavibool, Nattha, and Chumporn Moorapun. "Effects of Colour, Area, and Height on Space Perception." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 2, no. 6 (November 8, 2017): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v2i6.978.
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Colours and the spatial properties of the workplace are primarily visually conveyed. The aim of this study determines how colour, area and height influence space perception. 80 interior designers participated in this experiment to evaluate the sixteen workspace images on the internet-based questionnaires. Four factors of space perception; spaciousness, openness, complexity, and order, were assessed using a semantic differential scale. The outcomes revealed that variations in space perception were significantly associated with the difference in colour, area, and height. Neutral colour in all area and height obtained the highest rating of the overall factors, followed by cool colours.
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Barnett, Kylie J., Joanne Feeney, Michael Gormley, and Fiona N. Newell. "An exploratory study of linguistic–colour associations across languages in multilingual synaesthetes." Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 62, no. 7 (July 2009): 1343–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470210802483461.
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In one of the most common forms of synaesthesia, linguistic–colour synaesthesia, colour is induced by stimuli such as numbers, letters, days of the week, and months of the year. It is not clear, however, whether linguistic–colour synaesthesia is determined more by higher level semantic information—that is, word meaning—or by lower level grapheme or phoneme structure. To explore this issue, we tested whether colour is consistently induced by grapheme or phoneme form or word meaning in bilingual and trilingual linguistic–colour synaesthetes. We reasoned that if the induced colour was related to word meaning, rather than to the acoustic or visual properties of the words, then the induced colours would remain consistent across languages. We found that colours were not consistently related to word meaning across languages. Instead, induced colours were more related to form properties of the word across languages, particularly visual structure. However, the type of inducing stimulus influenced specific colour associations. For example, colours to months of the year were more consistent across languages than were colours to numbers or days of the week. Furthermore, the effect of inducing stimuli was also associated with the age of acquisition of additional languages. Our findings are discussed with reference to a critical period in language acquisition on synaesthesia.
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Medvedieva, Liudmyla. "On the opposite directions of semantic motivation in adjective / adverb derivational pairs in russian." Vìsnik Marìupolʹsʹkogo deržavnogo unìversitetu. Serìâ: Fìlologìâ 13, no. 22 (2020): 203–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-3055-2020-13-22-203-213.
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The paper analyses semantic relationships in adjective / adverb (ending in –о) derivational pairs in the Modern Russian language in terms of the direction of their motivation. The adverbial element in the derivational pairs is represented by adverbs describing the manner of an action. Derivational pairs such as острый – остро, быстрый – быстро refer to syntactic derivation and include words with the same lexical meaning. Thus, the direction of semantic motivation is irrelevant in this case, and adverbs are seen as derivatives on the basis of their formal compoundness. This approach prevents differentiation of derivational pairs in which the nature of semantic relationships between elements in the pair differ. However, the differentiation is possible if 1) the meanings of the related adjectives and adverbs are seen as close, but not the same; 2) in word comparison, the criterion of conformity / non-conformity of their lexical semantics with the categorial meaning of the part of speech is applied. This criterion, which is well-established in the pairs of ‘бежать – бег, острый – острота’ type in connection with the notion of folded proposition and which underlies the differentiation of isosemic and non-isosemic subclasses of nouns, is not easily extrapolated to the derivational pairs where both words have the categorial meaning of a modifier. Even so, correlating the lexical meanings of adjectives with modifying an object and the lexical meanings of adverbs with modifying an action reveals derivational pairs with opposite directions of semantic motivation. Forming adverbs from adjectives is a common direction in the pairs where the adjective describes an innate feature of the object, e.g. the shape, size, colour, etc., and the adverb describes the action not by its own characteristics, but by relating to the relevant feature of the object: острый нож → остро наточить нож meaning ‘так, что нож острый’. Forming adjectives from adverbs is a normal direction in the pairs where the adverb gives a characteristic of the action, e.g. speed or other peculiarities of the action unfolding in time, while the adjective renders a feature of an abstract action: быстро бежать → быстрый бег, meaning ‘такой, который происходит быстро’. Diachronically, derivational and semantic motivation is generated from the feature of a concrete object: быстрый конь → быстро бежит → быстрый бег, but in Modern Russian, the latter is primary, while быстрый конь comes secondary and is motivated by the meaning of the adverb. The indirect proof that in some pairs the adjective is the base, while in others it is the adverb can be given by the correlation of frequency scores of elements in the derivational pairs, i.e. in the derivational pairs of ‘острый → остро, крупный → крупно’ type, adjectives are more frequent, and in the derivational pairs of ‘быстро → быстрый, внезапно → внезапный’ type, adverbs show higher frequency. The analysis shows the need for further research of the semantic aspect of word-formation relationships between words with the categorial meaning of a modifier.