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Linguistic Categorization Prototypes in Linguistic Theory

Paperback • 1995 • English • 2. edition

Linguistic Categorization Prototypes in Linguistic Theory

By John R. Taylor

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This book explores the far-reaching implications for linguistic theory of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization. A common assumption has been that all members of a category necessarily share a common set of attributes. Rosch's work suggests, instead, that categories are definable in the first instance in terms of best examples, or 'prototypes', and that things get associated with the category on the basis of some kind of similarity with the prototype. The book articulates a number of as...Show more

Literacy
Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics
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ISBN

9780198700128

Publisher

Clarendon Press

Published year

1995

Language

English

Edition

2

Original title

Linguistic Categorization Prototypes in Linguistic Theory

Format

Paperback

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