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color names: linguistic and cognitive categoriesTRANSCRIPT
COLOR NAMES: LINGUISTIC AND COGNITIVE CATEGORIES
José Luis CAIVANO [email protected]
University of Buenos Airesand National Council for Research
Argentine Color Group
gwyrdd—————
green—————
blue glas—————
gray —————————— llwyd
brown
Linguistic and cognitive categorization in thedomain of color
Louis Hjelmslev:
lack of coincidence in the domains
covered by color names between
English and Welsh.
Umberto Eco: differences between Russian, Spanish, and Latin.
verde————————— glaucus, caerulus
golubej————— azul
sinij
[green]
[lightblue]
[darkblue]
Linguistic and cognitive categorization in thedomain of color
Similarities between Russian and the Spanish spoken in Argentina
golubej celeste————————————
sinij azul
[light blue]
[dark blue]
Linguistic and cognitive categorization in thedomain of color
basic color terms
instrument used to make the survey on color names:array of Munsell colors
Berlin & Kay – Mexican Spanish
Berlin & Kay – American English
Berlin & Kay – American English
Berlin & Kay – Mexican Spanish
BERLIN & KAY THESISBasic Color Terms. Their Universality and Evolution (1969)
2 terms [I stage] white and black (lightness - darkness) 7 languages in New Guinea + ngombé of Zaire, paliyan of India
3 terms [II stage] + red (1st color) 21 languages, some in Zaire: kikongo, lingala, swahili
4 terms [III stage] + green or yellowarunta, in Australia
5 terms [IV stage] + green + yellow18 american languages: hopi, navajo, apache, esquimo
6 terms [V stage] + blue 8 languages: mandarin (literary chinese), masai (Kenya), hausa (Niger)
7 terms [VI stage] + brownjavanese (Java)
11 terms [VII stage] + violet, pink, orange and graymost present languages in industrial and urban societies: French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, etc.
other studies on color categorization: Taft and Sivik; comparison between Swedish and Croatian
Robert MacLaury’s Mesoamerican
color survey
Association Internationale de la CouleurInternational Color AssociationInternationale Vereinigung für die Farbe
www.aic-color.org