The Colour and Colour Naming conference, held in 2015 at the University of Lisbon, offered a chance to explore colour naming processes from a cross-linguistic a

The volume presents sixteen chapters focused on lexicalization patterns used in color naming in a variety of languages. Although previous studies have dealt wit

This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has

Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.

This book provides an overview of approaches to language and culture, and it outlines the broad interdisciplinary field of anthropological linguistics and lingu