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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"prototype theory"”.
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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
… in the last several decades. In particular, prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized in the mind. This leads to a clearer understanding of the …
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Cohering with the Crowd: How Audiences Shape the Quasi-Scientific Process of Entrepreneurship
… others? A prominent line of work, drawing on prototype theory, posits a universal penalty for category-spanning offerings. I clarify the limitations of this approach, focusing in particular on its inability to explain change. I introduce theoretical coherence (the extent to which a combination …
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Extraction and representation of encyclopedic knowledge from a dictionary
… thesis demonstrates a practical application of prototype theory to the representation of world or encyclopedic knowledge. The tool is designed to extract such knowledge from dictionary entries and to represent it in a network of frames. An application needing encyclopedic knowledge would rely on …
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Animal names and categorisation in the Hebrew Bible : a textual and cognitive approach
… of cognitive linguistics, in particular the prototype theory of categories, is used to interpret the various types and levels of animal classification; a theory on spatiality as the main basis for classification is developed, and new light is shed on a wrongly undervalued theory of …
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Seeking Meaning in the Hebrew Bible: A Lexicographical Study of בקש and דרש using Structuralist and Cognitivist Linguistic Tools.
… Inter-subjectivity, and Motion-Space – alongside Prototype Theory and Lexical Fields (from a Structuralist perspective) were applied to reveal the connotations and nuances of the two verbs, בקש and דרש. Although these two approaches are usually considered to be methodologically opposed, this …
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Illustrating the prototype structures of parts of speech: A multidimensional scaling analysis
… that parts of speech can be explained as prototypes that emerge from the use of broad semantic classes of words--objects, properties, and actions--in basic propositional act functions of discourse--reference, modification, and predication. This theory predicts that each of these broad …
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Panorama descriptiu de les construccions de gerundi en català. Un acostament semàntic i cognitiu partint de la teoria de prototips
En contraposició a la categorització tradicional, que dona lloc a categories tancades, la teoria de prototips de la lingüística cognitiva classifica les entitats tenint en compte que hi ha elements d'una categoria que compleixen més condicions i d'altres que en compleixen menys, de manera que les …
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Semantic prototypes in EFL children’s and adolescents’ lexical output and vocabulary input in EFL textbooks
… within the conceptual framework of the prototype theory postulated by Rosch (1975). This theory highlights that a semantic prototype is known as the most representative exemplar recognized by the human being in a category. In this respect, semantic prototypes play a significant role in …
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La representación de la variación contextual mediante definiciones terminológicas flexible
… cognition (§2.1.1), frame semantics (§2.1.2.2), prototype theory (§2.1.3.2), and the theory theory (§2.1.3.3). We took as a starting point the application of frame-based terminology to the representation of specialized knowledge and to terminological definitions in EcoLexicon (a terminological …