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Terminology
Terminology is the meaning of terms and thier use.
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Terminology
Descriptive
Language; Terminology
An approach to linguistics which is concerned with saying what language is like and not what it should be like (prescriptivism).
Diachronic
Language; Terminology
Refers to language viewed over time and contrasts with synchronic which refers to a point in time. This is one of the major structural distinctions introduced by Saussure and which is used to ...
Creativity
Language; Terminology
An accepted feature of human language — deriving from the phenomenon of sentence generation — which accounts for speakers' ability to produce and to understand a theoretically infinite number of ...
Convention
Language; Terminology
An agreement, usually reached unconsciously by speakers in a community, that relationships are to apply between linguistic items, between these and the outside world or to apply in the use of rules ...
Alalia
Language; Terminology
Disability to speak which is caused by defects or damages on external speech organs, not on central nervous system.
Applied linguistics
Language; Terminology
The application of insights from theoretical linguistics to practical matters such as language teaching, remedial linguistic therapy, language planning and so forth.
Arbitrariness
Language; Terminology
An essential notion in structural linguistics which denies any necessary relationship between linguistic signs and their referents, e.g. objects in the outside world.
