COLL-C 104 Lecture 12: C104 Lecture 12 Notes (Feb. 20)
4 Mar 2017
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C104 lecture 12 notes- shifting back to linguistic relativity; starting color and culture. Gladstone (1858)- homeric scholar who (cid:373)ade o(cid:271)se(cid:396)(cid:448)atio(cid:374) that (cid:862)the(cid:396)e is so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g a(cid:449)(cid:396)(cid:455) a(cid:271)out ho(cid:373)e(cid:396)"s des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374)s of (cid:272)olou(cid:396)(cid:863) In iliad and odyssey, fe(cid:449) (cid:272)olo(cid:396)s used i(cid:374) des(cid:272)(cid:396)iptio(cid:374)s (cid:894)(cid:373)ostl(cid:455) si(cid:373)ila(cid:396) o(cid:374)es, like (cid:862)the (cid:449)i(cid:374)e-da(cid:396)k sea(cid:863)(cid:895) Used 1 word, referred to multiple colors. Used multiple color terms for 1 object. Only slight use of color, missing where expected. Small general color vocabulary: proposal: sensitivity to color has relatively recently evolved. Othe(cid:396) i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t figu(cid:396)es i(cid:374) deuts(cid:272)he(cid:396)"s lo(cid:374)g sto(cid:396)(cid:455): lazarus geiger (1869)- studied ancient languages. Observed ancient texts; not just homer, but generally true that color vocabulary gets more complex over the centuries. Some exceptions, like ancient egyptian and babylonian, modern korean and icelandic. Geige(cid:396)"s se(cid:395)uence- black red yellow green blue violet: hugo magnus (1877) and f. holmgren (1878)- researched color blindness and color perception.
