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  2. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    Differences in color categorization between languages are caused by differences in the overall usefulness of color to a culture or language group. [35] Different areas of the world can differ widely in environment and the colors readily available in that environment. These environmental differences can also have an influence on color naming.

  3. Unique hues - Wikipedia

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    While this theory with 4 unique hues was initially considered contradictory to the Young-Helmholtz trichromatic theory's three primary colors, the two theories were reconciled theoretically by Erwin Schrödinger [7] and the later discovery of color-opponent cells in the retina and lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) related the two theories ...

  4. Barnlund's model of communication - Wikipedia

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    Barnlund's model of interpersonal communication. The orange circles represent the communicators. The other colored areas symbolize different types of cues. Communication takes place by decoding cues (orange arrows) and encoding behavioral responses (yellow arrows). Barnlund's model is an influential transactional model of communication. It was ...

  5. Hockett's design features - Wikipedia

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    This is an important distinction made of human communication, i.e. language as compared to animal communication. While animal communication can display a few other design features as proposed by Hockett, animal communication is unable to lie or make up something that does not exist or have referents.

  6. Color term - Wikipedia

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    A color term (or color name) is a word or phrase that refers to a specific color. The color term may refer to human perception of that color (which is affected by visual context) which is usually defined according to the Munsell color system, or to an underlying physical property (such as a specific wavelength on the spectrum of visible light).

  7. Blue–green distinction in language - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian makes the distinction between green (zöld) and blue (kék), and also distinguishes black (fekete). Intermediate colors between green and blue are commonly referred to as zöldeskék (literally greenish-blue) or kékeszöld (bluish-green), but names for specific colors in this continuum—like turquoise (türkiz)—also exist.

  8. Style (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia

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    "New-wave" teens who wished to be distinctive adapted a more rebellious fashion style, wearing mostly dark clothes and pegged jeans, whereas popular, "preppy" girls tended towards light pastel colors and straight designer jeans. However, a couple girls wished to portray themselves as unique without losing their popular conformist social ...

  9. Color code - Wikipedia

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    A color code is a system for encoding and representing non-color information with colors to facilitate communication. This information tends to be categorical (representing unordered/qualitative categories) though may also be sequential (representing an ordered/quantitative variable).