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The scientific study of human language.
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Conceived time
Language; Linguistics
A term coined by Ronald Langacker to refer to the cognitive representation of time, where time is an object of conceptualization. Conceived time contrasts with the notion of processing ...
Conceptual alternativity
Language; Linguistics
A term coined by Leonard Talmy . Relates to the ability to conceptualise a member of one domain, for instance time, in terms of another, for instance space. Conceptual alternativity is facilitated ...
Compression
Language; Linguistics
In an integration network, the process which operates on a vital relation. Compression constitutes the process whereby an outer-space relation holding between counterparts in distinct input spaces is ...
Conception
Language; Linguistics
In LCCM theory, the meaning associated with an utterance. A conception emerges due to the processes of lexical concept integration guided by context and the processes of backstage cognition.
Emergent structure
Language; Linguistics
The conceptual structure which arises in the blended space in an integration network due to the process known as conceptual integration. The structure is emergent or novel as it is not a property of ...
Encyclopaedic semantics
Language; Linguistics
The general approach to linguistic semantics adopted in cognitive semantics. There are five key assumptions which comprise this perspective. Firstly, There is no principled distinction between ...
Encompassing secondary reference object
Language; Linguistics
A kind of secondary reference object. Provides a means, often determined by invariant aspects of the physical environment, of furnishing the primary reference object with axial properties. This in ...