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Titel: Color technology is not necessary for rich and efficient color language
VerfasserIn: Wnuk, Ewelina
Verkerk, Annemarie
Levinson, Stephen C.
Majid, Asifa
Sprache: Englisch
Titel: Cognition
Bandnummer: 229
Verlag/Plattform: Elsevier
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Freie Schlagwörter: Basic color terms
Secondary color terms
Coding efficiency
Cross-cultural codability
Color technology
Color salience
DDC-Sachgruppe: 400 Sprache, Linguistik
Dokumenttyp: Journalartikel / Zeitschriftenartikel
Abstract: The evolution of basic color terms in language is claimed to be stimulated by technological development, involving technological control of color or exposure to artificially colored objects. Accordingly, technologically “simple” non-industrialized societies are expected to have poor lexicalization of color, i.e., only rudimentary lexica of 2, 3 or 4 basic color terms, with unnamed gaps in the color space. While it may indeed be the case that technology stimulates lexical growth of color terms, it is sometimes considered a sine qua non for color salience and lexicalization. We provide novel evidence that this overlooks the role of the natural environment, and people’s engagement with the environment, in the evolution of color vocabulary. We introduce the Maniq—nomadic hunter-gatherers with no color technology, but who have a basic color lexicon of 6 or 7 terms, thus of the same order as large languages like Vietnamese and Hausa, and who routinely talk about color. We examine color language in Maniq and compare it to available data in other languages to demonstrate it has remarkably high consensual color term usage, on a par with English, and high coding efficiency. This shows colors can matter even for non-industrialized societies, suggesting technology is not necessary for color language. Instead, factors such as perceptual prominence of color in natural environments, its practical usefulness across communicative contexts, and symbolic importance can all stimulate elaboration of color language.
DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105223
URL der Erstveröffentlichung: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105223
Link zu diesem Datensatz: urn:nbn:de:bsz:291--ds-382887
hdl:20.500.11880/34553
http://dx.doi.org/10.22028/D291-38288
ISSN: 0010-0277
Datum des Eintrags: 29-Nov-2022
Bezeichnung des in Beziehung stehenden Objekts: Supplementary data
In Beziehung stehendes Objekt: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S0010027722002116-mmc1.pdf
Fakultät: P - Philosophische Fakultät
Fachrichtung: P - Sprachwissenschaft und Sprachtechnologie
Professur: P - Jun.-Prof. Dr. Annemarie Verkerk
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