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Color Categories in Thought and Language

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0521498007, 0521496934, 0511519818, 9780511519819, 9780521496933, 9780521498005
LCC
BF789.C7 C585 1997
Open Library ID
OL971132M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (12034921 bytes)
Pages
416\414
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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.

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