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Weaving different rainbows: Relationships between culture, thought and color language| old_uid | 639 |
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| title | Weaving different rainbows: Relationships between culture, thought and color language |
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| start_date | 2006/02/14 |
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| schedule | 15h45-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle 1.63 |
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| summary | The relationship between language and thought continues to engender lively debate in psychology, philosophy and psycholinguistics. Historically, this debate was characterized by the dichotomous views that thought is either shaped by language or, conversely, completely independent of it. Our own cross-cultural studies suggest that the two are tightly linked, at least for the domain of color. I will present evidence from cross-cultural studies of children and adults and from category learning studies in English and Italian that explore the tight relationship between concept acquisition, language acquisition and culture and the ways in which the process of color category acquisition is universal, even when the categories acquired are different. |
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| responsibles | Ruiter |
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