Open AccessThe sematic extension of “human colors” - red, ruddy and ginger in light of conceptual integration theory
Author(s) -
K Mirjana Ilic
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi1702115i
Subject(s) - adjective , extension (predicate logic) , meaning (existential) , linguistics , scope (computer science) , psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , natural language processing , noun , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
The meaning scopes of the words red, ruddy and ginger, used as color adjectives to characterize a person, have a different scope of meaning from the adjective red, whose polysemantic structure is much richer. These “human color” adjectives have somewhat different extensions compared to the adjective red, and this is frequently manifested in their inability to realize themselves within certain grammatical structures, in which it is still possible to realize the adjective red. Relying on conceptual integration theory, we have analyzed the relationship between the semantic extensions of these adjectives and reached the conclusion that there is a pyramidal hierarchical relation between these lexemes in which the adjective red is naturally dominant as the color designation