Naturalness vs. arbitrariness in the domain of color

pp. 217-226

in: Michael Herzfeld, Margot D. Lenhart, Semiotics 1980, Berlin, Springer, 1982

Abstract

The visual perception and linguistic categorization of color are related topics which have received extensive and long-term attention from a number of disciplines. Linguists, philosophers, psychologists, anthropologists, and physical and biological scientists have been, in various ways, preoccupied with color -- usually as an example of some more general type of relationship among experience, cognition, and linguistic or cultural behavior.