The Colours the Words Cast: Colour Terms in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas (Hardback or Cased Book)

Butler, Christopher

ISBN 10: 3031933885 / ISBN 13: 9783031933882

Editore: Palgrave MacMillan 8/30/2025, 2025

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The Colours the Words Cast: Colour Terms in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas.

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• Titolo: The Colours the Words Cast: Colour Terms in the Poetry of Dylan Thomas (Hardback or Cased Book)
• Editore: Palgrave MacMillan 8/30/2025
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3031933885
• ISBN 13: 9783031933882
• Rilegatura: Hardback or Cased Book
• Condizione: New
• Peso: 0,92 libbre
• Tipo di libro: Book

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This book examines the use of colour terms in the poetry of Dylan Thomas, adopting a primarily linguistic and stylistic - rather than literary - approach. Although critical studies of the poetry of Dylan Thomas abound, systematic and detailed linguistic studies of his poems are relatively rare. The authors’ main aim is to investigate in detail the use of colour terms, and in particular to link this to the associations between colours and their connotative symbolic meanings, which form the basis for what have been called colour metaphors. They also provide a rich database of these associations which will be of use to researchers who may be interested in the use of colour terms in other texts, whether literary or non-literary. This book will be of interest primarily to academics and advanced students in the field of linguistic stylistics.

Informazioni sull?autore

Christopher S. Butler taught linguistics at the University of Nottingham for many years and then held a professorial position at what is now York St John University, UK. He retired in 1998. His research interests include theoretical and descriptive aspects of form, meaning and use, within the framework of a functional approach to language, mainly but not exclusively in English and Spanish. 

Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen is Professor Emerita at Ghent University, Belgium. Her research interests include functional approaches to grammatical issues in English, with a special focus on modality, and contrastive grammar of English, French and Dutch.