33.270, Books: Exemplification and Categorization: Barotto

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Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 12:38:06
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Exemplification and Categorization: Barotto

 


Title: Exemplification and Categorization 
Subtitle: The Case of Japanese 
Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110722130/html 


Author: Alessandra Barotto

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110722130 Pages: 220 Price: U.S. $ 114.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110721959 Pages: 220 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

The book examines the relationship between exemplification and categorization,
using linguistic data from Japanese to better understand how people create and
communicate conceptual categories in real-life situations (cf. the notion of
ad hoc categories). In the book, exemplification is defined in functional
terms as a process through which a speaker signals that a given entity should
be construed as representative of a larger category of similar entities. The
status of example can thus be encoded by means of dedicated analytical markers
that overtly signal the exemplifying relation (e.g. for example), but also by
making explicit reference to the larger category from which the examples have
been selected. Through a case-study on four Japanese exemplifying markers (ya,
nado, tari, toka), the book aims to understand (i) how examples are used and
encoded by speakers to make reference to conceptual categories, (ii) what
types of categories speakers can create and communicate by means of
exemplification, (iii) how the relationship between exemplification and
categorization can be used by speakers to achieve specific discourse effects,
such as vagueness and politeness.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Subject Language(s): Japanese (jpn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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