以蒙古族和汉族大学生作为研究对象,运用自然分类法和文化启动范式,从文化、语言角度对蒙古族和汉族大学生的颜色认知特点及差异进行了研究.研究内容包括三个实验,实验一和实验二运用自然分类法,分别对蒙汉大学生的颜色词和颜色色块分类相似性进行对比,结果表明,蒙古族和汉族大学生的颜色认知有差异,汉族大学生把11个颜色词聚为彩色、冷色和暖色3类,而蒙古族大学生把颜色词聚为暗色、主观偏好色和非主观偏好色3类;蒙汉大学生在颜色知觉组织方面无显著差异.实验三运用文化启动范式考察文化、语言对颜色认知差异的影响,结果表明,不同文化启动使蒙汉双语者的颜色概念组织有差异,汉语言水平不同的蒙汉双语者在颜色概念组织和颜色知觉组织都存在差异.这说明语言和文化都是使蒙古族和汉族大学生的颜色认知产生差异的可能因素.研究结果表明,文化、语言会影响认知,支持Whorf语言相对论假设.
The relationship between language,culture and cognition is a crucial academic problem.The present Comparative study of the Mongolian and Han college students has used natural classification and culture prime to investigate that problem.The first experiment and the second experiment have used natural classification to compare Mongolian and Han undergraduate on the color classification.The last experiment has used culture prime to explored the culture and language impact on color cognition.The present study found that two ethnicity's color cognition is very different,the culture would impact on color term,while the language would effect color term and color percerption.In conclusion,the present result suggests that color cognition would indeed affected by language and culture,and agrees the Whorf hypothesis.