Essays about: "Jessica Presits"

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  1. 1. Sex, communism, and dangerous red things - On the semantics of the Hungarian words piros and vörös

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Jessica Presits; [2017]
    Keywords : linguistics; colour semantics; basic colour terms; linguistic relativity; Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; piros; vörös; Hungarian; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The topic of Basic Colour Terms (BCT) and their proposed universality has long been a source of debate within linguistics. Whether colour terms (as symbols) fill lexical gaps of presumed universal colour categories (as senses) or not is relevant for the debate regarding linguistic relativity: the hypothesis about the influence of language on the way we think. READ MORE