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Publication details [#22849]
Franklin, Karl J. 1985. Componential analysis and the game of baseball. Anthropological Linguistics 27 (3) : 281–301.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
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Annotation
F. studies the language surrounding the game of baseball, more specifically the semantic domain of `base-stealing'. He uses the technique of Componential Analysis, but concludes that in order to fully understand the language of baseball an analysis in terms of scripts is also required.