Color Categories in Thought and Language

Type

Book

Authors

Hardin ( C. L. Hardin )

ISBN 10

0521498007

ISBN 13

9780521498005

Tags

Cognitive, Physiological Aspects, Linguistics, Cognitive Psychology

Description

Twenty-five years ago, Berlin and Kay argued that there are commonalities of basic color term use that extend across languages and cultures, and probably express universal features of perception and cognition. In this volume, a distinguished team of contributors from visual science, psychology, linguistics and anthropology examine how these claims have fared in the light of current knowledge, surveying key ideas, results and techniques from the study of human color vision as well as field methods and theoretical interpretations drawn from linguistic anthropology. - from Amzon

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