This paper tries to demarcate the evolving process of decategorization into three periods and exemplify it by studying the Chinese character Mao.The exemplification shows the correctness of the demarcation.
Liu Zhengguang made a conclusion about features of linguistic decategorization on the semantic,morphonological,textual and categorial attributes levels.However,these features were too specific to reflect the holistic ...
Decategorization,as an important part of categorization,is the outcome of the ever-lasting change in human's cognition.Meanwhile,English for Science and Technology has undergone a long process of development,during wh...