ON CATEGORIZATION, CATEGORIES AND PROTOTYPES (BY THE EXAMPLE OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE)
Gubanova Lyubov' Georgievna, Samarina Varvara Sergeevna
North-Caucasian Federal University, Stavropol
Abstract. The article reveals the notion of categorization from the point of view of cognitive linguistics, the definition of categorization as a cognitive-semantic activity, and the formation of categories in the form of notions that completely generalize and classify the results of human cognitive activity. The article provides relevant empirical studies and discusses various methods for theorizing categories and prototypes.
Key words and phrases: категоризация, категория, прототип, когнитивная лингвистика, когнитивно-семантический анализ, categorization, category, prototype, cognitive linguistics, cognitive-semantic analysis
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