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Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila

Stability and change in two lexical domains of sensory perception

Abstract

This chapter first compares data collected on Kilivila colour terms in 1983 with data collected in 2008. The Kilivila lexicon has changed from a typical stage IIIb into a stage VII colour term lexicon (Berlin & Kay 1969). The chapter then compares data on the Kilivila taste vocabulary collected in 1982/83 with data collected in 2008. No substantial change was found. Finally the chapter compares the 2008 results on taste terms with a paper on the taste vocabulary of the Torres Strait Islanders published in 1904 by Charles S. Myers. Kilivila provides evidence that traditional terms used for talking about colour and terms used to refer to tastes have remained relatively stable over time. Keywords: language of perception; Papua New Guinea; Trobriand Islanders

Abstract

This chapter first compares data collected on Kilivila colour terms in 1983 with data collected in 2008. The Kilivila lexicon has changed from a typical stage IIIb into a stage VII colour term lexicon (Berlin & Kay 1969). The chapter then compares data on the Kilivila taste vocabulary collected in 1982/83 with data collected in 2008. No substantial change was found. Finally the chapter compares the 2008 results on taste terms with a paper on the taste vocabulary of the Torres Strait Islanders published in 1904 by Charles S. Myers. Kilivila provides evidence that traditional terms used for talking about colour and terms used to refer to tastes have remained relatively stable over time. Keywords: language of perception; Papua New Guinea; Trobriand Islanders

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. Practical theories and empirical practice – facets of a complex interaction 1
  6. Part I. Empirical practice
  7. The embodiment of linguistic meaning 35
  8. Infants’ encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure 55
  9. Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila 71
  10. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction 99
  11. Many languages, one knowledge base 129
  12. Part II. Practical theories
  13. Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms 159
  14. Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles 185
  15. Does Searle’s challenge affect chances for approximating assertion and quotative modal wollen ? 245
  16. The pragmatics of argumentation 257
  17. Implicature of complex sentences in error models 273
  18. The semantics of functional spaces 307
  19. Language index 325
  20. Name index 327
  21. Subject index 333
Practical Theories and Empirical Practice
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Practical Theories and Empirical Practice
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.40.04sen

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents vii
  3. List of contributors ix
  4. Preface xi
  5. Practical theories and empirical practice – facets of a complex interaction 1
  6. Part I. Empirical practice
  7. The embodiment of linguistic meaning 35
  8. Infants’ encoding of social interaction as a conceptual foundation for the acquisition of argument structure 55
  9. Referring to colour and taste in Kilivila 71
  10. Yucatec demonstratives in interaction 99
  11. Many languages, one knowledge base 129
  12. Part II. Practical theories
  13. Nen assentives and the phenomenon of dialogic parallelisms 159
  14. Evidentiality, modality, focus and other puzzles 185
  15. Does Searle’s challenge affect chances for approximating assertion and quotative modal wollen ? 245
  16. The pragmatics of argumentation 257
  17. Implicature of complex sentences in error models 273
  18. The semantics of functional spaces 307
  19. Language index 325
  20. Name index 327
  21. Subject index 333
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