Color and cognition in Mesoamerica

Description:

This book presents the results of the Mesoamerican Color Survey, which Robert E. MacLaury conducted in 1978-1981. Drawn from interviews with 900 speakers of some 116 Mesoamerican languages, the book provides a sweeping overview of the organization and semantics of color categorization in modern Mesoamerica. Extensive analysis and MacLaury's use of vantage theory reveal complex and often surprising relationships among the ways languages categorize colors. His findings offer valuable cross-cultural data for all students of Mesoamerica. In addition, because color and its categorization is a human universal, the model he proposes will be of interest to all linguists and cognitive scientists working on theories of categorization more generally.

subjects: Color,  Color vision,  Colors, Words for,  Culture and cognition,  Indian philosophy,  Indians,  Language and culture,  Languages,  Psychology,  Semantics,  Terminology,  Visual perception,  Words for Colors,  Cognition and culture,  Indiens d'Amérique,  Psychologie,  Philosophie indienne d'Amérique,  Couleurs,  Dénominations,  Couleur,  Terminologie,  Vision des couleurs,  Perception visuelle,  Cognition et culture,  Langage et culture,  Langues indiennes d'Amérique,  Sémantique,  73.69 science, art and education: other (ethnology),  18.91 American Indian languages,  Ethnolinguistik,  Farbbezeichnung,  Farbe,  Indianersprachen,  Sprache,  Visuelle Wahrnehmung,  Kognitionswissenschaft,  Sapir-Whorf-Hypothese,  Indianen,  Indianentalen,  Kleuren,  Classificatie,  Visuele waarneming,  Woordveldtheorie,  Langues indiennes,  Indiens,  Color, terminology,  Indians, languages

Places: Latin America