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Cultural-Historical Psychology
2011. Vol. 7, no. 2, 114–124
ISSN: 1816-5435 / 2224-8935 (online)

Reconstruction of Semantic Spaces of the Main Colours at the Example of Three Cultures (English-, Russian-and German-speaking)

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A.V. Kudrina

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Abstract

The cross-cultural research on reconstruction of semantic spaces in three cultures with different languages is described. The article presents the results of research and reconstruction of semantic space at the example of one colour. The reconstruction is based on scientific literature review and empirical research data (associative experiment) carried out on English-, Russian- and German-speaking samples. That included 456 respondents aged from 20 to 65. The data obtained adjust with the hypothesis of sameness of meanings in the core of semantic space in different cultures and existence of culturally-specific meanings of colours at its periphery that reflect cultural-historical development of each nation.

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Keywords: colour, semantic of colour, psychology of colour, semantic space of a colour, associations with a colour, associative experiment, prototypic references of a colour.

Journal rubric: Empirical Research

Article type: scientific article

For citation: Kudrina A.V. Reconstruction of Semantic Spaces of the Main Colours at the Example of Three Cultures (English-, Russian-and German-speaking). Kul'turno-istoricheskaya psikhologiya = Cultural-Historical Psychology, 2011. Vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 114–124. (In Russ., аbstr. in Engl.)

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Information About the Authors

Alena V. Kudrina, Research Assistant, Department of the English language vocabulary, Faculty of foreign languages, MPSU, Senior Lecturer, Department of Foreign and Russian Philology, MCUPE, post-graduate student, Department of Individual and Group Psychotherapy, Faculty of Psychological Counseling, MCUPE, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: alyonakudrina@gmail.com

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