Color: its apprehension and symbolic use in language and culture

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dc.contributor.advisorMcCormack, William C.
dc.contributor.authorStephenson, Peter Hayford
dc.date.accessioned2005-07-19T21:47:41Z
dc.date.available2005-07-19T21:47:41Z
dc.date.issued1973
dc.descriptionBibliography: p. 127-136.en
dc.description.abstractThe color spectrum has been used as a paradigm to exemplify two basic theoretical approaches (the universalist and the relativist) to the relationship between language and cognition and language and culture. Although both theoretical approaches appeared at first blush to be validated by the use of the color spectrum as a supportive example, upon more detailed examination, neither theoretical disposition is well supported, partly because color is so poorly understood as a natural phenomenon. This thesis works from both theoretical positions in an attempt to understand the symbolic uses of color in both language and culture in terms of the apprehension of color itself. Thus, this thesis is an attempt to understand the human uses of the polychromatic sensitivity of that organism and is not meant to use that sensitivity as exemplar of any particular theoretical predisposition . The conclusions regarding the evolution of color vision are speculative and properly so in what is necessarily a seminal work. The final conclusions regarding the universalist/ relativist debate are based on a rather massive body of data correlating cultural symbols with linguistic symbols for colors, and are of a common sense variety which occupies the middle ground between the extremes of the other two positions, both of which are partly right and, in the final analysis, uncontradictory.
dc.format.extentviii, 136 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.en
dc.identifier82480878en
dc.identifier.citationStephenson, P. H. (1973). Color: its apprehension and symbolic use in language and culture (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/15932en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/15932
dc.identifier.lccP 41 S82 1973en
dc.identifier.other82480878en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1880/15280
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subject.lccP 41 S82 1973en
dc.subject.lcshSociolinguistics
dc.subject.lcshColor
dc.titleColor: its apprehension and symbolic use in language and culture
dc.typemaster thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineAnthropology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (MA)
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ucalgary.thesis.accessionTheses Collection 58.002:Box 188 82480878
ucalgary.thesis.notesPLen
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