SCIENTIFIC SERIES
“COGNITIVE STUDIES OF LANGUAGE”
Author: S.V. Michugina
Affiliation: Moscow City University
Abstract: The article deals with the interactive status of color perception and conceptual-ization, the split between the nature of color and its linguistic realization within color category which is under constant process of development reflecting the most sig-nificant social, cultural and aesthetic processes in the world.
Keywords: color perception, anthropocentrism, color conceptualization, essence of color, color category, semantics of color terms.
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Pages: 210-216