When Color Becomes Metaphor: A Diachronic Corpus Study of Semantic Extension in Four English Color Adjectives
This study examines the metaphorical extension of four English color adjectives: golden, dark, green, and red. The historical change was analyzed in the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA) (1820-2010), and contemporary register distribution in the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) (1990-2019). Fre...