PROTOTIPIZATION AS WAY OF CATEGORIZATION AND CONCEPTUALIZATION (BY THE EXAMPLE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEXICAL UNITS FORMED AS A RESULT OF URBANIZATION)
Gulei Tat'yana Vasil'evna
Kiev National University named after T. G. Shevchenko, Ukraine
Abstract. The author basing on the English language material and in the light of categorization and conceptualization considers lexical units that denote the notions originating as a result of urbanization, and analyzes lexical units that denote urban infrastructure objects from the position of prototypes theory. Prototype models are effective characteristics of descriptive nature, which are multi-featured bundles of experience. Each category is based on its own ideo-syncretic row of key signs, which quantity and features are not clearly expressed, and basing on prototypes theory it eliminates the boundaries in the study of urbanonymous vocabulary.
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