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dc.contributor.authorWright, Lauraen_US
dc.date.accessioned2013-02-28T06:00:32Z-
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-15T14:30:17Z-
dc.date.available2013-02-28T06:00:32Z-
dc.date.available2018-03-15T14:30:17Z-
dc.date.issued2011en_US
dc.identifier.issn1133-1127en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10553/9728-
dc.description.abstractThis paper considers the changing referent of the colour terms maroon and magenta. Maroon was a specialised technical term in the mid-eighteen-hundreds within the field of artists’ colours, and the term magenta was introduced in 1860 in the newly-invented chemical dye industry. Both terms spread out into general usage, and in the case of maroon, caused earlier meanings to be disturbed and displaced so that today they are either forgotten or shifted into register-specific usage (namely, North American bureaucratic English and other Extraterritorial English bureaucratic varieties). It is speculated that the English artists’ colours firm of Winsor and Newton had a role in retarding the American sense-development of the colour term maroon, as this firm had a near-monopoly in late nineteenth-century America. Thus, the paper offers a description of semantic change from specialised usage to general usage, with a restriction of specialised usage remaining in a specific functional context. Data is taken from artists’ handbooks, tint-cards and paint catalogues; from police report forms, wanted persons notices, and other official bureaucratic forms; and mention is also made of the novels and letters of Charles Dickens.en_US
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dc.languageengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofLFE. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicosen_US
dc.sourceLFE. Revista de lenguas para fines específicos. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1993 [ISSN 1133-1127] n. 17, 2011, p. 341-374en_US
dc.subject570107 Lengua y literaturaen_US
dc.subject550510 Filologíaen_US
dc.subject.otherBureaucratic Englishen_US
dc.subject.otherCharles Dickensen_US
dc.subject.otherAniline dyeen_US
dc.titleSemantic shift of the colour-terms maroon and magenta in British Standard Englishen_US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.identifier.absysnet233536-
dc.investigacionArtes y Humanidadesen_US
dc.rights.accessrightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses
dc.type2Artículoen_US
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Colección:LFE, Rev. leng. fines específ. n.17, 2011 
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