Conference on Color Categories in Thought and Language; Pacific Grove, CA; October 1992

摘要现在有相当多的证据支持这一一般论点我们的知觉装置在我们人类思考和谈论颜色的方式上留下了印记。但关于颜色知觉和颜色分类之间的联系的具体性质还有很多要说，而且根本不清楚哪些关于基本颜色词使用的跨文化规律的问题可以通过视觉科学和心理物理学的方法有效地解决。这个问题领域需要人类学家和语言学家以及心理学家和视觉科学家之间有能力的合作。通过首次召开一次关于思想和语言中的颜色分类及其生物学基础的跨学科工作会议，将很好地实现这一目标。这次会议将召集六七名认知和语言人类学家，以及同等数量的心理学家和视觉科学家，以及六名初级调查人员，进行为期三天的指导和对问题领域的密集讨论。会议记录将被抄写、仔细编辑和出版。

ABSTRACT There is now quite a bit of evidence for the general thesis that our perceptual apparatus leaves its mark on the ways that we human beings think and talk about colors. But much remains to be said about the detailed nature of the connections between color perception and color categorization, and it is not at all clear just which questions about cross-culture regularities in the use of basic color terms can be usefully addressed by the methods of visual science and psychophysics. The problem area needs competent collaborative work between anthropologists and linguists on the one hand, and psychologists and visual scientists on the other. This end will be well served by convening, for the first time, a cross-disciplinary working conference on color categorization in thought and language, and its biological underpinnings. The conference will bring six or seven cognitive and linguistic anthropologists together with an equal number of psychologists and visual scientists and half a dozen junior investigators for three days of tutorials and intensive discussion of problem areas. The proceedings of the conference will be transcribed, carefully edited, and published.