TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barotto,Alessandra
TI  - Exemplification and Categorization: The Case of Japanese 
T2  - Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] ,
SN  - 9783110721959
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Japanese language
KW  - Grammatical categories
KW  - Spoken Japanese
KW  - Exemplifikation
KW  - Japanisch
KW  - Kategorisierung
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Japanese
KW  - Pragmatics
KW  - Semantics
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; List of Abbreviations --; 1 Theoretical foundations: the notion of exemplification --; 2 Data collection and parameters of analysis --; 3 Exemplification of lexicalized categories --; 4 Exemplification of non-lexicalized categories --; 5 Exemplification beyond categorization --; 6 Towards a unitary account of exemplification --; 7 Conclusion and prospects --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The book aims to examine 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), this 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110722130
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110722130
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110722130/original
ER  -