Basic colour terms for black and white in Chinese: with discussions on models of language development

Basic colour terms for black and white in Chinese: with discussions on models of language development

The basic colour terms for black and white are studied in four archaic and two contemporary linguistic norms of the Chinese language. It is presented that studied Chinese linguistic norms use a common term for white and three different terms for black. It is suggested that the different basic colou...

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Main Author: Jingyi Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Tartu Press 2012-12-01
Series:Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
Online Access:https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/15337
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title_short Basic colour terms for black and white in Chinese: with discussions on models of language development
title_full Basic colour terms for black and white in Chinese: with discussions on models of language development
title_fullStr Basic colour terms for black and white in Chinese: with discussions on models of language development
title_full_unstemmed Basic colour terms for black and white in Chinese: with discussions on models of language development
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description The basic colour terms for black and white are studied in four archaic and two contemporary linguistic norms of the Chinese language. It is presented that studied Chinese linguistic norms use a common term for white and three different terms for black. It is suggested that the different basic colour terms for black might originate from different source languages. The study supports a panchronic language development instead of a diachronic one, and includes introductions to histories of the Chinese linguistic norms
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