Naming the Rainbow - Colour Language, Colour Science, and Culture (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998)

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 for basic colour terms which is sensitive to cultural difference and to the nature and structure of non-linguistic experience. Audience: Contemporary colour naming research is radically interdisciplinary and Naming the Rainbow will be of interest to philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and cognitive scientists concerned with: biological constraints on cognition and categorization; problems inherent in cross-cultural and in interdisciplinary science; the nature and extent of cultural relativism.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Synthese Library, 274
Release date:	December 2010
First published:	1998
Authors:	D. Dedrick
Dimensions:	279 x 210 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	216
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 1998
ISBN-13:	978-90-481-5094-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Historical & comparative linguistics > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Philosophy of mind
LSN:	90-481-5094-9
Barcode:	9789048150946

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