Introducing vantage theory

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2002, Pages 493-536

  MacLaury, Robert E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency of the conceptualizer; Categorical asymmetry; Categorization; Category change; Cognition versus behavior; Cognitive dynamics; Color categories; Conceptual viewpoint; Indeterminacy; Similarity judgement; Subjectivity; Vantage theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037667360     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00003-1     Document Type: Article

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