Prototype semantics

This video introduces approaches to semantics, starting with Eleanor Rosch's explorations of 'prototype effects'. It moves on to the idea of schematic network as suggested by Langacker, and then developed by John Taylor and others. This suggests a semantic model in which our cognitive categories are structured around prototypical examples for a given word and schematizations that sanction other uses. The prototypes that come most quickly to mind depend on the domain we are thinking about at the time. Several examples are used, including 'tree;, 'ring' and 'salt'.

The following scholarly works are referenced:

Langacker, R. W. (2014). Foundations of cognitive grammar. Vol. 1: Theoretical prerequisites (Nachdr., Vol. 1). Stanford Univ. Press.
Lakoff, G. (20). Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind (paperback ed., [Nachdr.]). The Univ. of Chicago Press.
Taylor, J. R. (2009). Linguistic categorization (3. ed., reprinted). Oxford Univ. Press.
Taylor, J. R. (2010). Cognitive grammar (Reprinted). Oxford Univ. Press.
King, P. (2023). Was Paul a Missionary? EMQ, 59(3), 61–65.