Mari Uusküla
Biographic Data
| ID | 223944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mari Uusküla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mari |
| FAMILY NAME | Uusküla |
| SIGNATURE | UUSKÜLA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6219-9228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Maastikukuvand eesti keeles
Maastik on geograafia keskne mÃμiste, millel on kinnistunud definitsioon. Samas ei teata, kuidas mÃμtlevad maastikust eesti keele kasutajad, kes ei ole erialaspetsialistid. Artiklis keskendume kÃ1⁄4simusele, kuidas kÃμneletakse maastikust eesti keeles. Loetelukatse analÃ1⁄4Ã1⁄4s näitas, et maastik seostub enamasti loodusega, st mitte linnaga. KÃ1⁄4simuse â Mis on maastik?â kvalitatiivne sisu analÃ1⁄4Ã1⁄4s paljastas aga maastikukäsitluse teistsug…
Tõlkija Kuvand Ja Pädevused Masintõlke Ja Tehisaru Kiire Arengu Taustal – Noorte Mittetõlkijate Hoiakud Ja Arusaamad
The aim of the article is to discuss the perceptions surrounding translation and translators. Also, relying on the results of a study, it aims to investigate which competencies and skills young non-translators (high school and university students) consider most important for translators nowadays, and how they perceive changes in the translatorâ s image in the context of the widespread use of machine translation and artificial intelligence. The da…
Cognitive Space and Its Variants
Semantic domains can be considered in the light of prototype theory, making a distinction between ‘cultural’ and ‘natural kinds’. To sample this distinction, we compared the structure of three well-studied semantic domains in Estonian, a Finno-Ugric language: musical instruments, body parts and animal names. We used the method of listing to collect data which we analyse with the method of multidimensional scaling. Points-of-view analysis provides…
A comparative analysis of colour-emotion associations in 16-88-year-old adults from 31 countries
As people age, they tend to spend more time indoors, and the colours in their surroundings may significantly impact their mood and overall well-being. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to provide informed guidance on colour choices, irrespective of age group. To work towards informed choices, we investigated whether the associations between colours and emotions observed in younger individuals also apply to older adults. We recruited …
Is Purple Lost in Translation? The Affective Meaning of Purple, Violet, and Lilac Cognates in 16 Languages and 30 Populations
Colour-emotion association data show a universal consistency in colour-emotion associations, apart from emotion associations with PURPLE. Possibly, its heterogeneity was due to different cognates used as basic colour terms between languages. We analysed emotion associations with PURPLE across 30 populations, 28 countries, and 16 languages (4,008 participants in total). Crucially, these languages used the cognates of purple, lilac, or violet to de…
Two Indices Are Better than One
When informants from a given culture are asked to list items from a specified semantic domain, their lists provide two indicators of each term’s prominence or salience: its frequency of appearance across lists and its mean position within the lists that include it. Smith et al. (1995), Sutrop (2001), and most recently Robbins et al. (2017) have defined salience measures that combine these two sources of information. We argue that although frequen…
Translation of colour terms
Translation of colour terms hovers somewhere between cognitive linguistics and translation studies and has therefore remained relatively understudied as a topic, despite the popularity of cross-linguistic colour term studies in the languages of the world. Although colour terms form a relatively small and restricted semantic domain, translating a colour term into another language can cause a massive headache to anyone who has ever tried to seek an…
Kas õpi- või õpperuum? Mõistekasutus loob arusaama õppimise sisust
Sellega, kuidas mõistame õppimise tähendust, mõtestame inimeseks olemist ning kujundame ühiskonnas inimestevahelisi ja institutsionaalseid suhteid, mõjutades nii kõiki ühiskonna liikmeid. Õpikäsitus ongi arusaam sellest, mis eesmärkidel ja kuidas õpitakse ja millistes suhetes on selles protsessis osalejad, ning selle arusaama rakendamine praktikas (HTM 2017). Õpikäsitused on ajas muutuvad ühiskondlikud kokkulepped, mis on seotud inimeste uskumust…
Keel ruumis ja ruum keeles
Selle interdistsiplinaarse teemanumbri keskmes on ruumi mõiste ja ruumi keeleline väljendamine. Kui ühelt poolt on keel ruumist kõnelemise vahend, siis teisalt on see ise maailm, mis sisaldab arusaamu erinevatest ruumilistest aspektidest, mida muutes saab painutada ka mõtlemisviise. Ruumist kõneldakse oskus- ja argikeeles, erinevaid ruume kujutatakse kirjanduses ja ajakirjanduses, aga samal ajal kannab keel ise ruumilisi [...]
Maastik kui inimoluruum eesti keeles
The Role of Context in Translating Colour Metaphors
Contemporary theory on metaphor states that metaphor is conceptual, conventional, and part of the ordinary system of thought and language. It has been argued that metaphors can become a translation problem, since transferring them from one language and culture to another may be restricted by linguistic and cultural differences. We investigated how colour metaphors are translated from English into Estonian. To understand how metaphors are translat…
Loetelukatse ja nimeandmiskatse psühholingvistika meetodina
Katseliste meetodite kasutamine on tänapäeval nii keeleteaduse kui ka üldisemalt humanitaar- ja sotsiaalteaduse oluline osa, ilma milleta suur hulk teadlasi oma igapäevaelu ette ei kujuta. Loetelukatset ja nimeandmiskatset on kasutatud erinevate semantiliste tähendusväljade uurimiseks kognitiivses lingvistikas ja psühholingvistikas (Majid jt 2011, 2015). Eestis on pikaaegne loetelukatsete tegemise traditsioon, mille edasiarendajaks võiks pidada …
From Listing Data to Semantic Maps
When a free-listing task is used to elicit verbal concepts from a given semantic domain, it provides two indicators of the salience of each word for that linguistic community. These are the proportion of the subjects who include a word in their lists, and its average ranking priority position across the lists. The data also contain cues about the cognitive representation of the semantic domain, and in particular about the conceptual closeness amo…
Applying Points-of-View Analysis to Individual Variations in Colour Sorting Data
“Points-of-View” analysis has been promoted as an appropriate analysis for similarity data collected with the Method of Sorting. It can be regarded as an extension of Cultural Consensus Analysis ( cca ). The latter assumes that subjects all base their responses on a single shared ‘model’ of the items to be sorted (while varying in the level of reliability with which they consult that model). Conversely, the titular “points-of-view” are multiple m…
Põhivärvinimed Läänemere ümbruse keeltes
e mistame phivrvinime Brent Berlini ja Paul Kay phivrvinimede teooria (1969) traditsioonis ning mratleme seda kui phisna, mis on pshholoogiliselt esilduv, enamasti morfoloogiliselt lihtne omasna, mis kuulub samasse snaliiki (adjektiiv, noomen vi verb) kui selle domeeni prototpsed esindajad ning millel on sama grammatiline potentsiaal nagu domeeni prototpsetel esindajatel. Sna osutab ldiselt phitasandi objekti, kvaliteeti vi nhtust ning on kasutat…
Distribution of Colour Terms in Ostwald’s Colour Space in Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Russian and English
This article presents the distribution of colour terms in Ostwald's colour space over five languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Russian and English. All these languages have been argued to be stage VII languages in the terminology of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay, and thus to have 11 basic colour terms (except Russian, which probably has 12 basic colour terms). The data for all the languages represented in the present study is collected by using …
From Listing Data to Semantic Maps
When a free-listing task is used to elicit verbal concepts from a given semantic domain, it provides two indicators of the salience of each word for that linguistic community. These are the proportion of the subjects who include a word in their lists, and its average ranking priority position across the lists. The data also contain cues about the cognitive representation of the semantic domain, and in particular about the conceptual closeness amo…
A comparative analysis of colour-emotion associations in 16-88-year-old adults from 31 countries
As people age, they tend to spend more time indoors, and the colours in their surroundings may significantly impact their mood and overall well-being. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to provide informed guidance on colour choices, irrespective of age group. To work towards informed choices, we investigated whether the associations between colours and emotions observed in younger individuals also apply to older adults. We recruited …
Distribution of Colour Terms in Ostwald’s Colour Space in Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Russian and English
This article presents the distribution of colour terms in Ostwald's colour space over five languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Russian and English. All these languages have been argued to be stage VII languages in the terminology of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay, and thus to have 11 basic colour terms (except Russian, which probably has 12 basic colour terms). The data for all the languages represented in the present study is collected by using …
Põhivärvinimed Läänemere ümbruse keeltes
e mistame phivrvinime Brent Berlini ja Paul Kay phivrvinimede teooria (1969) traditsioonis ning mratleme seda kui phisna, mis on pshholoogiliselt esilduv, enamasti morfoloogiliselt lihtne omasna, mis kuulub samasse snaliiki (adjektiiv, noomen vi verb) kui selle domeeni prototpsed esindajad ning millel on sama grammatiline potentsiaal nagu domeeni prototpsetel esindajatel. Sna osutab ldiselt phitasandi objekti, kvaliteeti vi nhtust ning on kasutat…
Applying Points-of-View Analysis to Individual Variations in Colour Sorting Data
“Points-of-View” analysis has been promoted as an appropriate analysis for similarity data collected with the Method of Sorting. It can be regarded as an extension of Cultural Consensus Analysis ( cca ). The latter assumes that subjects all base their responses on a single shared ‘model’ of the items to be sorted (while varying in the level of reliability with which they consult that model). Conversely, the titular “points-of-view” are multiple m…
From Listing Data to Semantic Maps
When a free-listing task is used to elicit verbal concepts from a given semantic domain, it provides two indicators of the salience of each word for that linguistic community. These are the proportion of the subjects who include a word in their lists, and its average ranking priority position across the lists. The data also contain cues about the cognitive representation of the semantic domain, and in particular about the conceptual closeness amo…
Loetelukatse ja nimeandmiskatse psühholingvistika meetodina
Katseliste meetodite kasutamine on tänapäeval nii keeleteaduse kui ka üldisemalt humanitaar- ja sotsiaalteaduse oluline osa, ilma milleta suur hulk teadlasi oma igapäevaelu ette ei kujuta. Loetelukatset ja nimeandmiskatset on kasutatud erinevate semantiliste tähendusväljade uurimiseks kognitiivses lingvistikas ja psühholingvistikas (Majid jt 2011, 2015). Eestis on pikaaegne loetelukatsete tegemise traditsioon, mille edasiarendajaks võiks pidada …
The Role of Context in Translating Colour Metaphors
Contemporary theory on metaphor states that metaphor is conceptual, conventional, and part of the ordinary system of thought and language. It has been argued that metaphors can become a translation problem, since transferring them from one language and culture to another may be restricted by linguistic and cultural differences. We investigated how colour metaphors are translated from English into Estonian. To understand how metaphors are translat…
Translation of colour terms
Translation of colour terms hovers somewhere between cognitive linguistics and translation studies and has therefore remained relatively understudied as a topic, despite the popularity of cross-linguistic colour term studies in the languages of the world. Although colour terms form a relatively small and restricted semantic domain, translating a colour term into another language can cause a massive headache to anyone who has ever tried to seek an…
Kas õpi- või õpperuum? Mõistekasutus loob arusaama õppimise sisust
Sellega, kuidas mõistame õppimise tähendust, mõtestame inimeseks olemist ning kujundame ühiskonnas inimestevahelisi ja institutsionaalseid suhteid, mõjutades nii kõiki ühiskonna liikmeid. Õpikäsitus ongi arusaam sellest, mis eesmärkidel ja kuidas õpitakse ja millistes suhetes on selles protsessis osalejad, ning selle arusaama rakendamine praktikas (HTM 2017). Õpikäsitused on ajas muutuvad ühiskondlikud kokkulepped, mis on seotud inimeste uskumust…
Keel ruumis ja ruum keeles
Selle interdistsiplinaarse teemanumbri keskmes on ruumi mõiste ja ruumi keeleline väljendamine. Kui ühelt poolt on keel ruumist kõnelemise vahend, siis teisalt on see ise maailm, mis sisaldab arusaamu erinevatest ruumilistest aspektidest, mida muutes saab painutada ka mõtlemisviise. Ruumist kõneldakse oskus- ja argikeeles, erinevaid ruume kujutatakse kirjanduses ja ajakirjanduses, aga samal ajal kannab keel ise ruumilisi [...]
Maastik kui inimoluruum eesti keeles
Two Indices Are Better than One
When informants from a given culture are asked to list items from a specified semantic domain, their lists provide two indicators of each term’s prominence or salience: its frequency of appearance across lists and its mean position within the lists that include it. Smith et al. (1995), Sutrop (2001), and most recently Robbins et al. (2017) have defined salience measures that combine these two sources of information. We argue that although frequen…
Is Purple Lost in Translation? The Affective Meaning of Purple, Violet, and Lilac Cognates in 16 Languages and 30 Populations
Colour-emotion association data show a universal consistency in colour-emotion associations, apart from emotion associations with PURPLE. Possibly, its heterogeneity was due to different cognates used as basic colour terms between languages. We analysed emotion associations with PURPLE across 30 populations, 28 countries, and 16 languages (4,008 participants in total). Crucially, these languages used the cognates of purple, lilac, or violet to de…
A comparative analysis of colour-emotion associations in 16-88-year-old adults from 31 countries
As people age, they tend to spend more time indoors, and the colours in their surroundings may significantly impact their mood and overall well-being. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to provide informed guidance on colour choices, irrespective of age group. To work towards informed choices, we investigated whether the associations between colours and emotions observed in younger individuals also apply to older adults. We recruited …
Tõlkija Kuvand Ja Pädevused Masintõlke Ja Tehisaru Kiire Arengu Taustal – Noorte Mittetõlkijate Hoiakud Ja Arusaamad
The aim of the article is to discuss the perceptions surrounding translation and translators. Also, relying on the results of a study, it aims to investigate which competencies and skills young non-translators (high school and university students) consider most important for translators nowadays, and how they perceive changes in the translatorâ s image in the context of the widespread use of machine translation and artificial intelligence. The da…
Cognitive Space and Its Variants
Semantic domains can be considered in the light of prototype theory, making a distinction between ‘cultural’ and ‘natural kinds’. To sample this distinction, we compared the structure of three well-studied semantic domains in Estonian, a Finno-Ugric language: musical instruments, body parts and animal names. We used the method of listing to collect data which we analyse with the method of multidimensional scaling. Points-of-view analysis provides…
Maastikukuvand eesti keeles
Maastik on geograafia keskne mÃμiste, millel on kinnistunud definitsioon. Samas ei teata, kuidas mÃμtlevad maastikust eesti keele kasutajad, kes ei ole erialaspetsialistid. Artiklis keskendume kÃ1⁄4simusele, kuidas kÃμneletakse maastikust eesti keeles. Loetelukatse analÃ1⁄4Ã1⁄4s näitas, et maastik seostub enamasti loodusega, st mitte linnaga. KÃ1⁄4simuse â Mis on maastik?â kvalitatiivne sisu analÃ1⁄4Ã1⁄4s paljastas aga maastikukäsitluse teistsug…
Categorization, perception, and language (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Color perception and design (4 works) · Artificial Intelligence (3 works) · Cognition (3 works) · Estonian (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works)