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  • April 25, 2013
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PROTOTIPIZATION AS WAY OF CATEGORIZATION AND CONCEPTUALIZATION (BY THE EXAMPLE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEXICAL UNITS FORMED AS A RESULT OF URBANIZATION)

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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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Tat'yana Vasil'evna Gulei

Kiev National University named after T. G. Shevchenko, Ukraine

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  • Published: April 25, 2013.

Keywords

  • категоризация
  • концептуализация
  • прототип
  • «рефлексивная прототипность»
  • «родовое сходство»
  • «степень репрезентативности»
  • урбаноним
  • урбанонимикон
  • categorization
  • conceptualization
  • prototype
  • “reflective prototypicality”
  • “family resemblance”
  • “degree of representativeness”
  • urbanonym
  • urbanonymicon

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