Componential analysis
Componential analysis tries to explain the meaning of words about a universal list of semantic components and possible combinations of such components [StudFile.].
The componential analysis examines the concept that linguistic categories impact or define how people see the world; this concept is named after the American anthropological linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf who proposed it. In componential analysis, lexemes having a common variety of meanings establish a semantic domain. Such a domain is featured by the unique semantic characteristics (components) that distinguish individual lexemes from one another and by characteristics shared by all the lexemes in the domain [NeoEnglish].
A method of explaining the subject of a language is called componential analysis. It aims to construct verifiable models of how particular bodies of cultural (or conceptual) content are logically organized, insomuch as words and expressions show such content in the language. A method in both semantic and cultural description is best characterized as a method of ideography [Encyclopedia.com.].
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