Meanings and Prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415723736
• ISBN13: 9780415723732
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 2.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"