Robert E. MacLaury

List of John Benjamins publications in which Robert E. MacLaury is involved.

Title

Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling

Edited by Robert E. MacLaury, Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick

The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors… read more

[Not in series, 137] 2007. xx, 485 pp. | open access

Articles (7) | Order by:

MacLaury, Robert E. 2022 Lexical semantics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 855–864 | Chapter

MacLaury, Robert E. 2022 Taxonomy Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1768–1774 | Chapter

MacLaury, Robert E. 2009 Taxonomy Culture and Language Use, Senft, Gunter, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 248–255 | Article

MacLaury, Robert E. 2007 Categories of desaturated-complex color: Sensorial, perceptual, and cognitive models Anthropology of Color: Interdisciplinary multilevel modeling, MacLaury, Robert E., Galina V. Paramei and Don Dedrick (eds.), pp. 125–150 | Article

Over sixty percent of investigated languages name a color category by which speakers combine desaturation and complexity. The category engulfs the grey core of the Munsell color solid to emerge on the least saturated but blended areas of the solid’s surface, commonly brown, lavender, beige, and… read more

MacLaury, Robert E. 2000 Linguistic relativity and the plasticity of categorization: Universalism in a New Key Explorations in Linguistic Relativity, Pütz, Martin and Marjolijn H. Verspoor (eds.), pp. 249–294 | Article

MacLaury, Robert E. 1997 Lexical semantics Handbook of Pragmatics: 1996 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–13 | Article

MacLaury, Robert E. 1995 Taxonomy Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman and Jan Blommaert † (eds.), pp. 628–633 | Article