SoSe15: Term paper project: Color Adjectives

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Participants

• Valerie Dingeldey
• Luisa Schnelker

Short description of the project

• Showing a scenario in text and video
• Summary of Kennedy & McNally text "Color, Context and Compositionality"
• Provision of an explanatory video
• Testing knowledge on text
• Exercises

Produced material

Scenario

Lisa has brown hair. She is a big fan of Katy Perry and dyes her hair blue. If she now says her hair is blue, she speaks the truth.
Her friend Mary is a biologist and studies hair. She calls Lisa to be a participant in her study on naturally blue hair. When Lisa now says she has blue hair and can participate in the study, she speaks falsehood.

Test your general knowledge

Point added for a correct answer:
Points for an incorrect answer:
Ignore the questions' coefficients:

Answer the questions with yes or no!

yes	no
		Is there an ambiguity in the sentence: The hair is blue?
		Is there the option of denying the judgements, namely claiming that the meaning of a color is so vague that both persons speak the truth?
		In the biologist’s understanding, is Lisa’s hair color gradable?
		Does it matter why an object is a certain color?
		Is Mary'suse of color blue gradable?

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1. What does matter? (write on a sheet of paper and compare)

Check your answer

Relative degrees of some objective manifestation of color, e.g. hue, saturation, brightness.

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2. What does C stand for and where does it belong to? (write on a sheet of paper and compare)

Check your answer

Comparison class; quality gradability.

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3. What does P stand for and where does it belong to? (write on a sheet of paper and compare)

Check your answer

Variable that picks out part of x; quantity gradability.

Exercises

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