Query Details
| Query Subject: |
Image of "red" and "yellow"
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| Author: | Hiroaki Tanaka | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Semantics
Cognitive Science |
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| Query: |
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 16:07:02 +0900
Hiroaki Tanaka hiro-t@ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp Image of ''red'' and ''yellow'' Dear Linguists, I have an undergraduate student who is working on her graduation paper about the use of the image of ''red'' and ''yellow'' in English. Could you answer the following questions and help her write the paper? Please answer me directly and make comments, if any. I will have her post a summary soon. - ------------------------------------------------ (1) When you hear the word ''red'', what do you imagine/associate? Plese choose the appropriate words(the words you can think up of) among the following words? Please check * mark in the brackets. If you can think up of something other than the words listed below, plaese write them below. ( )pure / ( )completely, absolutely / ( )sensational / ( )the sun / ( )deficit / ( )communism / ( )danger / ( )stop / ( )happy / ( )good luck / ( )anger / ( )old and new / ( )drug / ( )fire Other words: (2) When you hear the word ''yellow'', what do you imagine/associate? Plese choose the appropriate words(the words you can think up of) among the following words? Please check * mark in the brackets. If you can think up of something other than the words listed below, plaese write them below. ( )inexperienced / ( )attention /( )a star / ( )the moon / ( )fire / ( )cowardice / ( )sensational / ( )boring, dull / ( )the sun / ( )old age Other words: (3) I'd like to ask you the color of the sun and the moon. What do you think is the color of the sun and the moon in English? - ---------------------------------------------- Thanks a lot in advance. Please mail me directly. Best wishes, Hiroaki Tanaka Associate Professor Faculty of Integrated Arts and Sciences Tokushima University, Japan 1-1, Minamijousanjioma, Tokushima, 770, Japan phone & fax: +81 886 56 7125 e-mail: hiro-t@ias.tokushima-u.ac.jp |
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| LL Issue: | 8.1712 | |
| Date posted: | 28-Nov-1997 | |
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