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Colors and culture change in Southwest Iran1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Erika Friedl
Erika Friedl
Affiliation:
Western Michigan University
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Abstract

An examination of recent changes in the color terminology of a Lurispeaking pepole in Iran shows a strong cultural basis of perception, categorization, and manipulation of colors. Compared to the familiar evolutionary model of the development of color categories, this case constitutes a slight deviation in the position of the colors brown and purple and suggests a qualification of the respective evolutionary stages as well as an expansion of the model's predictive hypotheses. (Color terms, evolutionary universals in linguistic change, Lur language, Iran.)

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Language in Society , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , April 1979 , pp. 51 - 68
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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