{"product_id":"meanings-and-prototypes-rle-linguistics-b-grammar-studies-in-linguistic-categorization-9780415723732","title":"Meanings and Prototypes (Rle Linguistics B: Grammar): Studies in Linguistic Categorization","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere 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 \u003ci\u003eprototype\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eprototype\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ebest example\u003c\/i\u003e (or: \u003ci\u003eprototype\u003c\/i\u003e) of its kind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e S. L. Tsohatzidis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/21\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.31d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415723732","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44125826777203,"sku":"9.78042E+12","price":371.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_ced1fb58-e152-49c1-b17e-a23a07730ccb.jpg?v=1764766496","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/meanings-and-prototypes-rle-linguistics-b-grammar-studies-in-linguistic-categorization-9780415723732","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}