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Color Categories as Fuzzy Sets. Working Papers of the Language Behavior Research Laboratory. No. 44.
Download full textKay, Paul; McDaniel, Chad K. – 1975
Since Berlin and Kay's proposal in 1969 of two universals concerning the meanings of basic color words, three kinds of information have become available to help in understanding the encoding sequence, that is, the temporal order in which the basic color categories are accorded lexical status. McDaniel (1972, 1974, forthcoming) demonstrates that…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Classification, Color
PDF pending restorationKay, Paul – 1969
Ethnographic semantics is that discipline which seeks to understand human cognition through an analysis of the cognitive content of linguistic expressions: that is, the systematic study of the meanings of words and the role of these meanings in cognitive systems. There are many misconceptions about the nature of ethnosemantics, however, and by…
Descriptors: Anthropological Linguistics, Anthropology, Classification, Componential Analysis
Berlin, Brent – 1969
Criticism has been directed at a growing body of literature broadly referred to as ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, folk science, ethnographic semantics, and cognitive anthropology. Criticisms concern methodological and analytic aspects of ethnoscientific procedure, and the directions of ethnosemantic research from a theoretical point of view. The…
Descriptors: African Languages, Anthropology, Classification, Color
