Description: Meanings and Prototypes : Studies in Linguistic Categorization, Paperback by Tsohatzidis, S. l. (EDT), ISBN 1138980668, ISBN-13 9781138980662, Brand New, Free shipping in the US There are fewer distinctions in any language than there are distinct things in the universe. If, therefore, languages are ways of representing the universe, a primary function of their elements must be to allow the much more varied kinds of elements out of which the universe is made to be categorized in specific ways. A prototype approach to linguistic categories is a particular way of answering the question of how this categorization operates. It involves two claims. First, that linguistic categorization exploits principles that are not specific to language but characterize most, if not all, processes of cognition. Secondly, that a basic principle by which cognitive and linguistic categories are organized is the prototype principle, which assigns elements to a category not because they exemplify properties that are absolutely required of each one of its members, but because they exhibit, in varying degrees, certain types of similarity with a particular category member which has been established as the best example (or: prototype) of its kind.
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Book Title: Meanings and Prototypes : Studies in Linguistic Categorization
Number of Pages: 600 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Meanings and Prototypes : Studies in Linguistic Categorization
Publisher: Routledge
Subject: Linguistics / Semantics, General, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 39.1 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: S. L. Tsohatzidis
Subject Area: Language Arts & Disciplines
Item Width: 6.2 in
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
