Meanings and Prototypes
Subtitle: Studies in Linguistics Categorization
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 1990
Place of publication: London - New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780415036122
Subjects: Categorization (Linguistics); Semantics
Description: The development of the prototype approach to linguistic categorization into a satisfactory body of theory 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. Its first two parts contain discussions in which various kinds of linguistic phenomena are analysed in ways that make essential use of prototype notions. Its last two parts contain discussions in which prototype notions themselves become the object, rather than the instrument, of inquiry. [Publisher]