Linguistic Categorization

Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199266646
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Categorization written by John R. Taylor and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to an important area in the broader field of Cognitive Linguistics. Taking as its starting point the categorization of colour it explores the far reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on prototype categorization extending it's application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to the study of morphology, syntax, and phonology. First published in 1989 the third edition of this populat text has been fully revised and updated to include recent developments in Cognitive Linguistics. It introduces basic issues in the study of word meaning, and demonstrates the viability of the prototype approach to the study of phonology, syntax and acquistion. The new edition expands the treatment of polysemy, meaning relatedness, idioms and grammatical constructions The book presupposes no prior knowledge of linguistics and will therefore be particulary suited to undergraduate courses.

Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191608386
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Categorization written by John R. Taylor and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a readable and clearly articulated introduction to the field of Cognitive Linguistics. It explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to morphology, syntax, and phonology. The third edition is fully revised and updated to include the considerable developments in Cognitive Linguistics since 1987. It covers recent research on polysemy, meaning relatedness and metaphors, as well as expanding the discussion of syntactic categories and the relevance of computer simulations.

Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383040913
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Categorization written by John R. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides a readable introduction to the field of cognitive linguistics. It explores the far-reaching implications of Eleanor Rosch's seminal work on categorization and prototype theory, extending the application of prototype theory from lexical semantics to morphology, syntax, and phonology.

Author : Roberta Corrigan
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027235589
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Categorization written by Roberta Corrigan and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of the papers presented at the 16th International Symposium at the University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee. Two central question were addressed: What is the nature of the categories that underlie the structure of human language? What is the nature of extralinguistic categories that are reflected in language? These questions are addressed from the perspective of a variety of disciplines, using many different methodologies and focusing on many different aspects of language including morphology, syntax, semantics, phonology and discourse. The volume is divided into 3 sections: prototype effects in language, categorization processes, and cross-linguistic categorization.

Author : Luca Alfieri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027259941
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Categories, Language Description and Linguistic Typology written by Luca Alfieri and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few issues in the history of the language sciences have been an object of as much discussion and controversy as linguistic categories. The eleven articles included in this volume tackle the issue of categories from a wide range of perspectives and with different foci, in the context of the current debate on the nature and methodology of the research on comparative concepts – particularly, the relation between the categories needed to describe languages and those needed to compare languages. While the first six papers deal with general theoretical questions, the following five confront specific issues in the domain of language analysis arising from the application of categories. The volume will appeal to a very broad readership: advanced students and scholars in any field of linguistics, but also specialists in the philosophy of language, and scholars interested in the cognitive aspects of language from different subfields (neurolinguistics, cognitive sciences, psycholinguistics, anthropology).

Author : Caterina Mauri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027258996
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Categories in Interaction written by Caterina Mauri and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the topic of linguistic categorization from a novel perspective. While most of the early research has focused on how linguistic systems reflect some pre-existing ways of categorizing experience, the contributions included in this volume seek to understand how linguistic resources of various nature (prosodic cues, affixes, constructions, discourse markers, ...) can be ‘put to work’ in order to actively build categories in discourse and in interaction, to achieve social goals. This question is addressed in different ways by researchers from different subfields of linguistics, including psycholinguistics, conversation analysis, linguistic typology and discourse pragmatics, and a major point of innovation is represented in fact by the interdisciplinary nature of the volume and in the systematic search for converging evidence.

Author : Daniël Olmen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110609878
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aspects of Linguistic Variation written by Daniël Olmen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic variation is a topic of ongoing interest to the field. Its description and its explanations continue to intrigue scholars from many different backgrounds. By taking a deliberately broad perspective on the matter, covering not only crosslinguistic and diachronic but also intralinguistic and interspeaker variation and examining phenomena ranging from negation over connectives to definite articles in well- and lesser-known languages, the volume furthers our understanding of variation in general. The papers offer new insights into, among other things, the theoretical notion of comparative concepts, the social or mental nature of language structure, the areal factor in lexical typology and the diachronic implications of semantic maps. The collection will thus be of relevance to typologists and historical linguists, as well as to people studying variation within the areas of cognitive and functional linguistics.

Author : John R. Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Categorization written by John R. Taylor and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first accessible introduction to the "cognitive paradigm" in linguistics. Constrasting cognitive linguistics with the assumptions of Chomskyan linguistics, and drawing examples mainly from English, the book explores the potential of the study of word meaning, syntax, and phonology.

Author : Jonathan Brindle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443898155
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color Language and Color Categorization written by Jonathan Brindle and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a unique collection of chapters on the way in which color is categorized and named in a number of languages. Although color research has been a topic of focus for researchers for decades, the contributions here show that many aspects of color language and categorization are as yet unexplored, and that current theories and methodologies which investigate color language are still evolving. Some core questions addressed here include: How is color conceptualized through language? What kind of linguistic tools do languages use to describe color? Which factors tend to bias color language? What methodologies could be used to understand human color categorization and language better? How do color vocabularies evolve? How does context impact the color cognition? The chapters collected here adopt different theoretical and methodological approaches in describing new empirical research on how the concept of color is represented in a variety of different languages. Researchers in linguistics, psychology, and cognitive science present a set of new explorations and challenges in the area of color language. The book promotes several methodological and disciplinary dimensions to color studies. The color category is given an in-depth and broad-based examination, so a reader interested in color conceptualization for itself will be able to form a solid vision of the subject.

Author : S.L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317933591
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meanings and Prototypes written by S.L. Tsohatzidis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.