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From object to color and back: Seeing the world in color in Croatian, Turkish and Arabic

This chapter deals with lexicalization patterns of color terms and lexical units derived from color terms in Croatian, Turkish, and Arabic, three typologically and socioculturally different languages. The focus of the analysis is the relationship between object and color in: a) the way the languages exploit the OBJECT FOR COLOR conceptualization strategy in order to name colors and b) the way languages use the COLOR FOR OBJECT conceptualization strategy in order to lexicalize different phenomena of experience. In addition, one of the main aims of the analysis is to see which lexicalization patterns in the three languages are used productively in both types of conceptualization strategies.

color terms, lexicalization patterns, conceptualization strategies, Croatian, Turkish, Arabic

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