I try to make a point of watching Jeopardy whenever I can because I believe it is one of the highest quality and most educational game shows on television. I especially love to see how much fun the writers have naming the categories. They truly know how to be creative with language.
Because of my love of linguistics, a couple of my favorite categories recently were You're Such an Idiom and Slanguage. Of course, this got me to thinking of other potential linguistic category titles. Here are some that I have come up with: Clitical Mass, Nice Dipthong, Free the Morphemes, A Nominal Cost, Foxymorons, Hang up the Phoneme, Tag (Question) You're It.
Showing posts with label categories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label categories. Show all posts
Friday, December 26, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Prototype Semantics Diagram
The prototype approach to meaning is very important to the field of semantics as mentioned in previous posts about prototype semantics. People think in categories and assign objects to categories by comparing the objects to what they think will provide the best example of that category. A good way to illustrate this concept is with a prototype semantics diagram.
Following is a prototype semantics diagram of the category bird:
The further out from the center of the circle each object is - the less prototypical that object is for the category that is being diagrammed. This diagram reveals that people think of bluejays, robins, and doves as more prototypical birds than penguins or ostriches.
Following is a prototype semantics diagram of the category bird:
The further out from the center of the circle each object is - the less prototypical that object is for the category that is being diagrammed. This diagram reveals that people think of bluejays, robins, and doves as more prototypical birds than penguins or ostriches.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Recent Jeopardy Categories
I try to make a point of watching Jeopardy whenever I can because I believe it is one of the highest quality and most educational game shows on television. I especially love to see how much fun the writers have naming the categories. They truly know how to be creative with language.Because of my love of linguistics, a couple of my favorite categories recently were You're Such an Idiom and Slanguage. Of course, this got me to thinking of other potential linguistic category titles. Here are some that I have come up with: Clitical Mass, Nice Dipthong, Free the Morphemes, A Nominal Cost, Foxymorons, Hang up the Phoneme, Tag (Question) You're It.
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