On the ethno-cultural specificity of color names: Kazakh ⱪonyr ‘brown’ vs. Polish brązowy ‘brown’
Journal: Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
Year: 2025

The article is based on an assumption of anthropological linguistics, in particular the biocultural theory of meaning (J. Zlatev), that the semantic system of language is determined by a combination of external factors, including environmental determinism. The need to adapt the cognitive system to the environment and geophysical conditions of existence of human groups leads to the fact that cultural worldviews and the corresponding semantic systems of languages differ. The authors consider the r