Human societies name and classify colours in various ways. Knowing this, is it possible to
retrieve colour systems from the past? This book presents the basic principles of modern …

This article describes color naming by 51 American English–speaking informants. A free-
naming task produced 122 monolexemic color terms, with which informants named the 330 …

Background Brief interventions have a modest but meaningful effect on promoting smoking
cessation and reducing excessive alcohol consumption. Guidelines recommend offering …

The word Antiquity in this book's title is large and loose in its reference, pointing to a web of
peoples whose main nodes of connection, in the traditional view, are the civilizations of …

The contributions to this volume, which have been written by art historians, archaeologists,
artists and conservators, seek to address the variety of human experience of colour and …

The lumen method is an indoor lighting calculation methodology that allows a quick
assessment of the number of luminaires necessary to achieve a given average illuminance …

This article attends to “questionnaires” in linguistic fieldwork defined by the inclusion of
sensory stimuli. It shows that such non-verbal protocols have been used to help elucidate …

This dissertation examines the salvage era of American linguistics (c. 19101940) and its
focus on the extraction of knowledges and cultural artifacts from Indigenous groups whose …

BK69 (159) und Kay (2006: 116) zitieren ua eine seinerzeit einflussreiche Einführung in die
Linguistik, die den sprachlichen Relativismus anhand des Farbwortschatzes ein drucksvoll …

1. I use scare quotes around the word purple because that word in English does not
accurately convey the broad hue range and visual properties of products made with these …