Color, Color Terms, Categorization, Cognition, Culture: An Afterword

Author: Dedrick, Don

Source: Journal of Cognition and Culture, Volume 5, Numbers 3-4, 2005 , pp. 487-495(9)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

Recent work on color naming challenges the idea that there are shared perceptually salient colors or color categories that are "hardwired" into homo sapiens and provide the basis for one of the most famous cross-cultural claims of all time, Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's claim that there is a small number of "basic" color terms (eleven), and that some subset of these terms is present in every human language (Berlin & Kay, 1969; see Kay and Maffi, 1999; Kay and Reiger, 2003; and Kay 2005 for updates).

Keywords: COLOR CATEGORIZATION; COLOR TERMS; CROSS-CULTURAL

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853705774648545

Publication date: 2005-10-01