The next Doc'in Nicod will be exceptionally held on a THURSDAY (same place).
Yasmina Jraissati (PhD. with Roberto Casati) will give a talk on the 15th of May (11-12.30) about "Basic Color Terms : an Epistemological Perspective".
Abstract :
I want to examine the Basic Color Terms Theory (BCTT,1969) from an epistemological perspective, by reviewing some of its main notions and suggesting a way to develop its research paradigm. The BCTT is originally an anthropological theory of color naming, which has developed in an interdisciplinary approach to color perception and categorization.
In this talk, I shall go over its two main theses - (1) The Universal Color Semantics Thesis according to which there is a limited number of basic color terms across languages, (2)The Evolutionar Sequence Thesis, according to which these terms emerge in a constrained order.
