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PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521496934
ISBN-139780521496933
eBay Product ID (ePID)346003
Product Key Features
Number of Pages414 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameColor Categories in Thought and Language
Publication Year1997
SubjectLife Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Linguistics / Psycholinguistics, Applied Psychology, Linguistics / General
TypeTextbook
AuthorLuisa Maffi
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Science, Psychology
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight35 Oz
Item Length10 in
Item Width7.1 in
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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN96-007898
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal152.14/5
Table Of Content1. Introduction C. L. Hardin and Luisa Maffi; Part I. The World Color Survey: 2. Color naming across languages Paul Kay, Brent Berlin, Luisa Maffi and William Merrifield; Par tII. Visual Psychologists: 3. The psychophysics of color Bill Wooten, David L. Miller; 4. Physiological mechanisms of color vision Israel Abramov; 5. The neuropsychology of color Jules Davidoff; 6. Insights gained from naming the OSA colors Robert M. Boynton; 7. Beyond the elements: investigations of hue David L. Miller; 8. Color systems for cognitive research Lars Sivik; Part III. Anthropologists and Linguists: 9. Establishing basic color terms: measures and techniques Greville G. Corbett and Ian R. L. Davies; 10. Color shift: evolution of English color terms from brightness to hue Ronald Casson; 11. Two observations on culture contact and the Japanese color nomenclature system James Stanlaw; 12. Skewing and darkening: dynamics of the cool category Robert E. MacLaury; 13. Genes, opsins, neurons, and color categories: closing the gaps Stephen L. Zegura; Part IV. Dissenting Voices: 14. It's not really red, green, yellow, blue: an inquiry into perpetual color space Kimberly Jameson and Roy G. D'Andrade; 15. The linguistics of 'color' John A. Lucy; 16. Closing thoughts Luisa Maffi and C. L. Hardin.
SynopsisIn the late 1960s, Berlin and Kay argued that there are commonalities of basic colour term use that extend across languages and cultures, and probably express universal features of perception and cognition. In 1992, at the Asilomar Conference Centre, visual scientists and psychologists met with linguists and anthropologists for the first time to examine how these claims have fared in the light of current knowledge. To what extent can cross-cultural regularities be explained by the operation of the human visual system? What can the study of colour categorisation tell us about concept formation? Are the Berlin-Kay results an artifact of their methods? What tools have been and should be used to probe the structure of human colour categories? In this volume, which arose from that conference but also incorporates new work, a distinguished team of contributors survey key ideas, results and techniques from the study of human colour vision, as well as field methods and theoretical interpretations drawn from linguistic anthropology., 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., In this volume the work of Berlin and Kay, which proposed that there are commonalities of basic colour term use that extend across languages and cultures, is reassessed in the light of current knowledge by a distinguished team of contributors from visual science, psychology, linguistics and anthropology.
LC Classification NumberBF789.C7 C585 1997
