认知语言学

Levels of Categorization
Superordinate level Higher levels or more general levels Basic level More specific, but not too specific Subordinate level Lower levels or more specific categories
Superordinate level
Superordinate level categories are the most general ones. The members of a superordinate category do not have enough features in common to conjure up a common gestalt at this level.
Superordinate level
Basic level
Subordinate level
animal
-----
dog ------- spaniel
（一种长毛垂耳狗）
cutlery -----（刀具总称）
knife ------ bread knife
furniture ------ table ------ card table
boundaries.
4th assumption: All members of a category
have equal status.
The Prototype Category Theory
Prototype theory is a mode of graded categorization in cognitive science, where some members of a category are more central than others. Prototype theory has also been applied in linguistics, as part of the mapping from phonological structure to semantics.
Basic level
The categories at the basic level are those that are most culturally salient and are required to fulfill our cognitive needs the best. Three respects: Perception Communication Knowledge organization
1st assumption: Categories are defined by a
limited set of necessary and sufficient confitions
2nd assumption: Features are binary 3rd assumption: Categories have clear
Cognitive linguistics is based on human experiences of the world and the way they perceive and conceptualize the world.
Definition
Categorization & Theory of Categories categorization
The classical theory The prototype category theory
Superordinate level
Levels of categories
Basic level Subordinate level
Definition
Categorization: the mental process of classification
Cognitive Linguistics
------ 伊丕愚 李玉娇 金灵 李敏
Outline
(I) Introduction (II) Categorization and Categories
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Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally appeared in the early 1970s out of dissatisfaction with the formalist approaches to language.
Subordinate level
They have clearly identifiable gestalts and lots of individual specific features. At this level, we perceive the differences between the members of the basic categories.
Category: the products or result of categorization
Theory of Categorization
Classical theory
Its views claim that a complex concept can be analyzed with several binary primary features .