Exemplification and Categorization

Barotto, Alessandra

doi:10.1515/9783110722130

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“…vs. 'Why don't we meet at let's say the pub tonight? ', we notice that, in the latter, pub has to be taken as an instance of a larger category, namely 'place where one can have a beer' (Barotto 2017;Goria, this issue).…”

Section: The Online Construction Of Categories Across Languagesmentioning

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Ad hoc categorization and languaging: the online construction of categories in discourse

Mauri

Sansò

2020

Language Sciences

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Section: The Online Construction Of Categories Across Languagesmentioning

confidence: 98%

Ad hoc categorization and languaging: the online construction of categories in discourse

Mauri

Sansò

2020

Language Sciences

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“…In the process of ad hoc categorization, interlocutors are thus able to anchor general statements and abstract concepts to their own experience (cf. Barotto 2021), and this occurs incrementally through the ongoing conversational exchange.…”

Section: Incremental Ad Hoc Categorization: Zooming In and Outside Ca...mentioning

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Ad hoc categorization in linguistic interaction

Mauri

2021

Studies in Language Companion Series

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The aim of this paper is to describe and explain the role that linguistic interaction plays in category construction and communication, by looking at naturally occurring data of spoken language. First, it will be argued that there is a way of building categories that is inherently interactional and indexical, namely ad hoc categorization. Ad hoc categorization will be defined as a bottom-up exemplar driven process, that is dependent on context for both its construction and its interpretation, and crucially relies on non-exhaustivity and exemplification. After a brief overview of the linguistic strategies that may encode ad hoc categorization, we will concentrate on linguistic interaction, taking the perspective of so-called languaging. It will be shown that categorization is frequently instrumental to intersubjective aims, such mutual agreement, negotiation, and the general management of the speakers' positioning. In turn, it is collaboration between the interlocutors that allows to fine-tune categorization and achieve mutual understanding. Finally, we will focus on the incrementality of ad hoc categorization in interaction along two dimensions, namely, the identification of the category borders and the progressive anchoring of the category to the interlocutors' experience.

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“…Should we conclude that naming is only possible for stable categories, and even for those categories it does not act as labeling, but rather as a clue? According to Barotto's (2017) corpusbased study of Japanese, ad hoc categories are very frequently referred to through some category label, which is typically preceded or followed by exemplification, in a pattern that alternates naming and description. Barotto and Mauri (2018) look at discourse data from Italian and show that speakers tend to be somehow redundant, when they refer to categories in discourse, typically recurring to lexical labels (compounds or lexical units), reformulations and exemplification, in a 'camel hump' pattern of top-down and bottom-up referential strategies.…”

Section: Naming Concepts and Category Labelsmentioning

confidence: 99%