Social and Cognitive Motivations of Change
Measuring Variability in Color Semantics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7900131 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert E Maclaury (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 34 |
| Publication date | 1991-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/415538 |
| OpenAlex | W2007555295 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 20 |
Semantic change is carried forward by specific individuals who think in particular ways. although it can be constrained by physiology and guided by social values. The measurement of color categories provides a close look at the various propelling incentives in a domain that is probably universal. Newly refined descriptive methods enhance such observations, because they permit verification of cognitive differences on the basis of correspondence between independently elicited orders of quantifiable data. Measurable change progresses through diverse trajectories in closely related Mayan languages whose social milieux are radically distinct. In Tzeltal, variation can be explained in terms of individual cognitive shifts within universal physiological parameters. But in Tzotzil a socially enforced conservatism creates tension between the preservation of traditional categories and the addition of new ones. The tension produces a taxonomy that is deeper than any others encountered by the major world color surveys. While a model of individual cognition explains how color categories change at the basic level, a social model accounts for differences between communities
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Cognitive science · Linguistics · Semantics (computer science) · Sociology · Categorization, perception, and language · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychology
Culture and Cognition
The basic colour terms of Lower Sorbian and Upper Sorbian and their typological relevance
Language and World View
Basic BLUE in East Slavonic
Folk biology and the anthropology of science
Conceptualización del evento y autorreferencia
Changes in the Language of Perception in Cantonese
Lexical change often begins and ends in semantic peripheries
Stability and change in the colour lexicon of the Japonic languages
Making a list
The basic colour terms of Chichewa
Introducing vantage theory
On construals and vantages
Colors and vantage theory
Vantage theory, VT2, and number
Exotic Color Categories
Color Terms and Color Term Acquisition in Damara
A Statistical Approach to Determining Basic Color Terms
Basic objects in natural categories
Basic color terms
Synchronic variability and diachronic change in basic color terms
Intra‐cultural variability in the structure of the subjective color lexicon in Buganda 1
Categorization of Natural Objects
The Social Motivation of a Sound Change
Colors and culture change in Southwest Iran
Further Evidence for Universal Color Categories
Speculations on the growth of ethnobotanical nomenclature
Binumarien Color Categories
Black, White, and Red All Over
Biocultural Implications of Systems of Color Naming
Tarahumara color modifiers
Salience and relativity in classification
Aguaruna color categories1
The Colors of Emotion1
Color-Category Evolution and Shuswap Yellow-with-Green
What Is Grey, Brown, Pink, and Sometimes Purple
The Colors of Emotions in Machiguenga
Color Terminology and Color Classification
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,51 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2022 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |