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Nifty Shades of Beige: The Exploration of Color Lexicology Related to Sexual Identity

Yutzy, Evan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430744655

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2015, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of English.
In the present study, gender and sexual orientation are consciously measured in respect to color naming. Previous research concludes that women wholly identify color in more precise terms, with varying levels of color vocabulary. Men, oppositely, tend to identify color by marrying saturation variables with basic color terms. The introduction of sexual orientation as a means of assemblage distinction proposed the idea that homosexual men identify color in superior terms, even to their heterosexual female counterparts. Heterosexual men and homosexual women identify color in nearly identical terms, with a minuscule deviation in scoring. The results of the present study suggest that one’s lexicon is formed differently than previously gestured, and that gender may no longer serve as an adequate means of separation.
Barbara Karman, Ph.D. (Advisor)
44 p.
Linguistics
sexual orientation; color study; color lexicology; gender; linguistics; mental lexicon; color; sexual identity and color; color and linguistics

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  • Yutzy, E. (2015). Nifty Shades of Beige: The Exploration of Color Lexicology Related to Sexual Identity [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430744655

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yutzy, Evan. Nifty Shades of Beige: The Exploration of Color Lexicology Related to Sexual Identity. 2015. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430744655.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yutzy, Evan. "Nifty Shades of Beige: The Exploration of Color Lexicology Related to Sexual Identity." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1430744655

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