Download or read book Color Categories in Thought and Language written by C. L. Hardin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five years ago, Berlin and Kay argued that there are commonalities of basic color term use that extend across languages and cultures, and probably express universal features of perception and cognition. In this volume, a distinguished team of contributors from visual science, psychology, linguistics and anthropology examine how these claims have fared in the light of current knowledge, surveying key ideas, results and techniques from the study of human color vision as well as field methods and theoretical interpretations drawn from linguistic anthropology.