1. Contributions of Cognitive Linguistics to c Cognitive Translatology 1.1 Prototype semantics Prototype semantics is an approach to lexical meaning based on the work by D Eleanor rosch and colleagues on concepts and categorization in the 1970s. the basic o0 tenet is that category membership is not based on necessary and sufficient conditions and may be graded. Tabakowska(1993) was probably the first translatologist to draw from Rosch's(1978) prototype theory1. Contributions of Cognitive Linguistics to Cognitive Translatology • 1.1 Prototype semantics • Prototype semantics is an approach to lexical meaning based on the work by Eleanor Rosch and colleagues on concepts and categorization in the 1970s. The basic tenet is that category membership is not based on necessary and sufficient conditions and may be graded. Tabakowska (1993) was probably the first translatologist to draw from Rosch’s (1978) prototype theory