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Basic Color Terms: Their Universality and Evolution

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The work reported in this monograph was begun in the winter of 1967 in a graduate seminar at Berkeley. Many of the basic data were gathered by members of the seminar and the theoretical framework presented here was initially developed in the context of the seminar discussions. Much has been discovered since1969, the date of original publication, regarding the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of universal, cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of basic color lexicons, and something, albeit less, can now also be said with some confidence regarding the constraining effects of these language-independent processes of color perception and conceptualization on the direction of evolution of basic color term lexicons.

210 pages, Paperback

First published October 28, 1969

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November 14, 2010
Davvero interessante.
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(alla voce «Colore») che le conclusioni di questo studio del 1969 (l’esistenza di universali semantici per quanto riguarda i termini di colore e di una sequenza evolutiva nell’elaborazione di questi termini) sono state confermate da studi più recenti. Al di là di questo, è affascinante vedere da vicino i metodi di una ricerca scientifica nel campo delle scienze umane e la “lentezza”, la “prudenza”, l’“attenzione” nel trarre conclusioni.
Notevoli gli squarci di “vecchia ricerca”, con l’intreccio di buffi pregiudizi e strabilianti conclusioni: «si efectivamente la percepción de los colores se ha obtenido de modo gradual, el hombre de provenir podrá percibir los colores que come el ultravioleta son hoy invisibles y cuya existencia sólo conocemos por las propiedades químicas que poseen», sosteneva nel 1924 Carlos Cuervo Marquez, citato a p. 79. Come dire che i “superpoteri” sono teorizzati a partire dall’analisi delle nostre limitate capacità… ;-)
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