Categorisation in linguistics

authored by

Rainer Schulze

Abstract

In this paper concepts from cognitive linguistics are combined with assumptions and methods from corpus linguistics in order to study categorisation in everyday life. The notion of categorisation, although ambiguous, will cover both the act of setting up categories and the act of identifying instances of a category. The presentation and discussion of current linguistic thinking in "categorisation theory" will entail a reassessment of the notion of binarism as popularised in structural linguistics, preferably following Langacker's A → B principle.

Organisation(s)

English Department

Type

Review article

Journal

Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Volume

57

Pages

219-231

No. of pages

13

ISSN

0044-2305

Publication date

2009

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1515/zaa.2009.57.3.219 (Access: Closed)