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8/13/2019 Colour Collocations in Corpora
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Colour Collocations
Lenka Koutn
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OUTLINE
Colour, collocation
Methodology Results
Conclusion
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Colour
Colour name:
- a word or phrase referring to a specific colour
Basic colour terms (Berlin and Kay, 1969):
- Monolexemic
- High-frequency- Agreed upon speakers of language
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Basic colour terms
Stage I: dark-cool and light-warm black andwhite
Stage II: red
Stage III: either greenor yellowStage IV: both green and yellow
Stage V: blue
Stage VI: brownStage VII: purple, pink, orange, or grey
(Berlin and Kay, 1969)
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Collocation
= tendency of words to co-occur
J.R. Firth:You shall judge a word by company it
keeps.
(Partington, 1998)
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Research Question
most frequent colour collocations inAmerican and British English according to
COCA and BNC
corpora and language acquisition of
colour terms
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BLACK (55721)
COCA BNC
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BLACK
black.[j*]
black people
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WHITE (41029)
COCA BNC
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White
I've tried to explain that anybody ina whitecoatlooks like a hospital attendant, but theykeep demanding results. [BNC:FAP:W_fict_prose]
She was grey haired, quite dumpy witha whitecoaton and she came to collect sperm if youwanted it stored. [BNC:K5D:W_newsp_other_report]
blue collarworkers to experience wage profilesthat arc in the West generally confinedto whitecollarprofessions. [BNC:EAX:W_non_ac_soc_science]
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RED (35060)
COCA BNC
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Red
He and the Yankees might have caught up to
the RedSoxin player development.
[COCA:2011:NEWS:USAToday]
Basketball stakes Obama's claim to beingAmerican just like RedSoxseats help Romney's
Boston cred. [COCA:2011:MAG:Newsweek]
He recommended that RedArmyyouths becomevillage teachers to counteract this trend.
[BNC:A64:W_ac_polit_law_edu]
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GREEN (20281)
COCA BNC
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Green
the results, taken as a whole, demonstratethat the greenformscheme represents aninvaluable social service and provides a source
of immediate legal advice [BNC:GVH:W_ac_polit_law_edu]
The Green Capital document urgesthat GreenBeltand Metropolitan Open Landbe protected, wildlife sites safeguarded andthe management of [BNC:A65:W_pop_lore]
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YELLOW (8576)
COCA BNC
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Yellow
This varies with the nature of the offence
(murder versus parking on a yellowline), the
strength and efficiency of the police and the
recording methods employed
[BNC:K8Y:W_misc]
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BLUE (19981)
COCA BNC
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Brown
with more massive, neighboring clumps
eject the smallest cores, and this results
in browndwarfsand isolated planets.
[COCA:2006:MAG:Astronomy]
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RESULT
Colour term COCA BNC
Black 55721 6998
White 41029 6189
Red 35060 4761
Yellow 8576 1355
Green 20281 3473
Blue 19981 3163
Brown 11927 1844
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References
Berlin, B., Kay, P. Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and
Evolution. University of California, Berkeley, 1969.
Partington, A. Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for
English Language Research and Teaching. Universita 'degli
Studi di Siena, 1998.
Davies, Mark. (2008-) The Corpus of Contemporary American
English: 450 million words, 1990-present. Available online
athttp://corpus.byu.edu/coca/.
Davies, Mark. (2004-) BYU-BNC. (Based on the British National
Corpus from Oxford University Press). Available online
athttp://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/.
http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/http://corpus.byu.edu/bnc/http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/8/13/2019 Colour Collocations in Corpora
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*Name the colour:
http://www.colornames.ch/wie/index.php
Thank you for your attention.
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