Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers
Semantic Extension from the Ethnoscience Tradition
Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says grab a chair that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says let's buy a chair, they won't? In Plastic Glasses and Church Fathers, Kronenfeld offers a theory that explains both the usefulness of language's variability of reference and the mechanisms which enable us to understand each other in spite of the variability. Kronenfeld's theory, rooted in the tradition of ethnoscience (or cognitive anthropology), accomplishes three things. First, it distinguishes prototypic referents from extended referents. Second, it describes the various bases of seman…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-509407-7
- EAN: 9780195094077
- Produktnummer: 22680333
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 286 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.3 cm 514 g
- Auflage: New
- Abbildungen: line figures, tables
- Reihenbandnummer: 03
- Gewicht: 514
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