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: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138980668
• ISBN13: 9781138980662
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"