TY - BOOK
T1 - Metaphor, metonymy, the body and the environment
T2 - An exploration of the factors that shape emotion-colour associations and their variation across cultures
AU - Littlemore, Jeannette
AU - Bolognesi, Marianna
AU - Julich-Warpakowski, Nina
AU - Leung, Danny
AU - Pérez Sobrino, Paula
PY - 2023/7/20
Y1 - 2023/7/20
N2 - By exploring the complex and emotional relationship of humans and colour in depth, looking at how it varies across languages, exploring the explanations that people provide for the associations that they make, and analysing them through the lens of metaphor, this Element gains more insights into the different ways in which humans express emotions through colour, and the reasons why they do so. Metaphoric (and metonymic) language and thought play a key role on several levels in the formation of emotion-colour associations. A strong metaphorical connection between the valence of the emotion and the lightness of the colours with which it is associated and between the intensity of an emotion and the saturation level of the colours with which it is associated is found. However, the strength of this association varies according to the linguistic background of the speaker, and according to the gender in which the emotion is presented.
AB - By exploring the complex and emotional relationship of humans and colour in depth, looking at how it varies across languages, exploring the explanations that people provide for the associations that they make, and analysing them through the lens of metaphor, this Element gains more insights into the different ways in which humans express emotions through colour, and the reasons why they do so. Metaphoric (and metonymic) language and thought play a key role on several levels in the formation of emotion-colour associations. A strong metaphorical connection between the valence of the emotion and the lightness of the colours with which it is associated and between the intensity of an emotion and the saturation level of the colours with which it is associated is found. However, the strength of this association varies according to the linguistic background of the speaker, and according to the gender in which the emotion is presented.
UR - https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/abs/metaphor-metonymy-the-body-and-the-environment/3F187ACAE518799657CE72258958E3E4
U2 - 10.1017/9781009042468
DO - 10.1017/9781009042468
M3 - Book
SN - 9781009045582
T3 - Elements in cognitive linguistics
BT - Metaphor, metonymy, the body and the environment
PB - Cambridge University Press
ER -