Opposition to Berlin & Kay et al.

Anna Wierzbicka and universals of visual semantics

In an article titled The Semantics of Colour: A New Paradigm, Wierzbicka discusses three main critiques of the universalist approach:

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2. The lack of inquiry into the semantic range of any given language's assumed color naming.
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[...] (Wikipedia, 2019)

Keywords: relatively autonomous arena, differences in cognition, education pathways, semantic range, possible worlds, linguistics, colors

Linguistic relativity. Available from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity >. access on 30 September 2019.

Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate. Available from < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity_and_the_color_naming_debate >. access on 28 September 2019.

-- GregorioIvanoff - 28 Sep 2019
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