Maa Color Terms and Their Use as Human Descriptors  

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Payne, Doris L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Anthropological Linguistics (ada di JSTOR) vol. 45 no. 2 (Mar. 2003), page 169-200.
Fulltext: Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 169-200.pdf (3.59MB)

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The fine-grained color distinctions that many Maa speakers make are impressive: Maa has about thirty color terms and nearly twenty color-plus-design terms. Some are adjectives, while others are stative verbs. Probably seven to nine (including all the verbs) are "basic color terms" in the sense of Brent Berlin and Paul Kay's 1969 work. Figurative extensions of color concepts include use of e-miad 'color' to refer to 'type', as in a typology. Also, a traditional name for God is parmdriin 'one of many colors', indicating that God is in control of all types of situations. Despite the large inventory of color terms, the ample number of basic color terms, and the metaphorical association between color and type, evidence from figurative senses, idioms, and some experimental work suggests there is a much simpler color-term system involved in conceptualization of human pro- pensity and personality types. RED, DARK, and LIGHT are the color concepts used metaphorically in this fundamental human-relationship domain.

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