Can the GOE be applied to abstract concepts or do they have to be tangible things like the examples we used in class? The reason I ask this question is that I was thinking about the word or concept of "Love". What would be the features that one would list for this? Would the prototypical "love" be something like: the love between a mother and child, the love of say candy, the love for a hot shower, the list could go on and on. The semantic and pragmatic possibilities for the use of the word are virtually endless. I had enough trouble coming up with features to list for musical instruments! Any thoughts?
]]>Doing the GOE work in class was very interesting from the point of seeing how things are categorized by different people. It is really dependent on rather or not one has been acquainted with an object, term, concept, etc. When there is a list consisting of things that are known to someone then you can get a true rating of something that seems to prototypical. On the other hand if you have a category such as the "sports" one then where very few people that even knew what "skeet shooting" was and were not able to rank it as a sport at all. Maybe I'm missing the point and things that are prototypical are also supposed to be well-known, but it is all very relative to me. Any thoughts?
]]>I was fortunate enough to study in Japan for a year and here are some others that I remember learning:
Waka Waka suru=excitement
Doki Doki suru=heartbeating
Tsuki Tsuki suru=headache
"Suru" is just the copula "to be"
There are tons of these but that's all I can remember at the moment.
I heard a McD's commercial the other day where this guy is listing all the different names for money that are used. Such as: moolah, cash, bread, etc. At the end he comments that no matter what you call it if you choose McD's then you will keep more of it your pocket.
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