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Colour Language, Colour Science, and Culture

By: Don Dedrick, D. Dedrick

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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.

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Acknowledgements	p. ix
The Foundations of the Universalist Tradition in Colour Naming Research
Introduction	p. 3
Colour Naming and Whorf's Hypothesis
Introduction: cultural relativism and colour naming	p. 10
The structure of the colour space	p. 13
Focal colours	p. 15
Focality and focal effects	p. 20
Conclusion to this chapter	p. 23
Psychophysics and Colour Naming
Introduction	p. 25
Human colour vision: the opponent colours theory	p. 29
Psychophysics and focality	p. 37
Psychophysics and basic colour categories	p. 41
Conclusion to this chapter	p. 47
Colour Naming and the Brain
Introduction	p. 48
Pre-cortical physiology	p. 48
LGN neurons, psychophysics, and colour naming	p. 52
The primary visual cortex and beyond	p. 56
Conclusion to this chapter	p. 57
Language, Mind, and Brain: A Summary
Introduction	p. 59
Regularities and generalizations	p. 62
Conclusion to this chapter	p. 72
Colour Naming: Constraints, Cognition, and Culture
Composite Colour Categories and the Evolution of Systems of Colour Naming
Introduction	p. 77
Berlin and Kay's order: evolutionary or epigenetic?	p. 77
Berlin and Kay's evolutionary order: 1969	p. 82
Reformulating the ordering: the 1975 hue sequence	p. 83
The 1978 explanation: FNRs	p. 86
Basic colour terms and their distribution: a revised taxonomy	p. 91
The problem of linguistic composite categories	p. 94
Composite categories: linguistic and visual relations	p. 96
Interpreting the composite category rule	p. 98
Is there a perceptual--biological basis for composite categories?	p. 101
Conclusion to this chapter	p. 105
The Non-Naturalness of Colour Categories
Introduction	p. 108
Similarity, colour space, and colours: the empiricist tradition in philosophy	p. 109
Natural and constructed nameables	p. 112
Conceptualizing colours	p. 116
The natural and the cognitive	p. 122
The logic and the psychology of colour naming	p. 123
Conclusion to this chapter	p. 130
Culture and Colour Naming
Introduction	p. 133
The nature of cultural inquiry	p. 134
Boasian themes	p. 136
Cognition and colour	p. 144
Conclusion to this chapter	p. 148
Conclusion: Colour Naming, Cognition, and Culture	p. 153
Criticism of Berlin and Kay, and Rosch	p. 160
Notes	p. 179
References	p. 201
Name Index	p. 213
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