Radial Representations of the Semantics of Reduplicative Constructions in Nigerian Pidgin (Naija)

What is it about?

Categorization is influenced by our worldview in no small way. For the most part, it is anything but neatly binary. This article uses linguistic data to show the fuzzy nature of category boundaries, while additionally showing that category membership is not random, but motivated by our embodied interaction with the world. Also important is the fact that some category members are peripheral to one or more prototypes. In this article, we see how the selection of a prototype is dependent on salience, among other factors, which in turn are a reflection of culture and worldview.

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