Red or white? Color in Chinese folksongs.
Color preference in Chinese folksongs is examined from the perspectives of themes, ethnicity, and geographical environment. The results yield that self-organization property of language system plays the role in color use and color preference varies with theme, ethnicity, and geographical environment...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 225 - 242 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2021
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