Categorization in Selected Daily Questions: A Linguistic Perspective
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25130/Lang.9.2.P2.16Keywords:
Categorization, Features, mental representation, exemplar theory, Aristotelian assumptionsAbstract
In this paper, the researcher deals with the categorization phenomenon and how it develops throughout its history. As a matter of fact , the categorization process throughout its history , has witnessed three theories . Each theory has its own standard features which make it unlike the other theories . The researcher has taken the latest theory to analyze his data . The data have been gathered from an online site. They are a set of every day questions and each question has its responses . There are , frankly speaking , six questions which are completely adequate to arrive at the desired points or results. The data are analyzed in terms of qualitative analysis method which focuses heavily on textual , descriptive analysis. The researcher has used Chiren’s paper entitled “ Studies in Sociology of Science” (2013) as a framework or model to answer the suggested questions of the paper . The researcher has raised the following questions (i) How does a social group and its members have their own typical category member? Which social factors are responsible in the process of forming the typical member? At the end of the current paper , the researcher has drawn a conclusion for his this study. we can say that each social group has its own prototype(s) due to the differences that each society has . The factors of commonality and familiarity of a certain idea , concept , object etc., have a very good role in the formation process of what is at the discussion carpet .
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