Introduction: Margins and boundaries in linguistic categorization
IntroductionCategorization is a basic cognitive process. Humans use language to categorize, primarily through the nominal category (Mignot [2017]). More particularly, categorization enables them to better organize the world around them in order to facilitate learning and decision-making (Lakoff [19...
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Lexis
2024
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| Sumari: | IntroductionCategorization is a basic cognitive process. Humans use language to categorize, primarily through the nominal category (Mignot [2017]). More particularly, categorization enables them to better organize the world around them in order to facilitate learning and decision-making (Lakoff [1987]). Metaphorically, humans resort to cognitive boundaries to define their everyday experiences and bring them together according to the properties they have in common, or the “family resemblances... |
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