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Meanings and Prototypes (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) - Studies in Linguistic Categorization (Hardcover)
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Meanings and Prototypes (RLE Linguistics B: Grammar) - Studies in Linguistic Categorization (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics
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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. The development of the prototype approach
into a satisfactory body of theory obviously requires both that its
empirical base be enriched, and that its conceptual foundations be
clarified. These are the areas where this volume, in its 26 essays,
makes original contributions. The first two parts contain
discussions in which various kinds of linguistic phenomena are
analysed in ways that make essential use of prototype notions. The
last two parts contain discussions in which prototype notions
themselves become the object, rather than the instrument, of
analytical scrutiny.
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