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Naming the Rainbow
Don Dedrick
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Description for Naming the Rainbow
Paperback. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 216 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFD; GT; HPM; JFSL; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 210 x 12. Weight in Grams: 590.
Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words? This question has been a subject of debate since Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution was published in 1969. Naming the Rainbow is the first extended study of this debate. The author describes and criticizes empirically and conceptually unified models of colour naming that relate basic colour terms directly to perceptual and ultimately to physiological facts, arguing that this strategy has overlooked the cognitive dimension of colour naming. He proposes a psychosemantics ... Read more
Is there a universal biolinguistic disposition for the development of `basic' colour words? This question has been a subject of debate since Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution was published in 1969. Naming the Rainbow is the first extended study of this debate. The author describes and criticizes empirically and conceptually unified models of colour naming that relate basic colour terms directly to perceptual and ultimately to physiological facts, arguing that this strategy has overlooked the cognitive dimension of colour naming. He proposes a psychosemantics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Synthese Library
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048150946
SKU
V9789048150946
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