Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

conceptually the meaning of

Language; Linguistics

The central part of the meaning, which consists from the logical, cognitive and denotativnog content.

languages for special purposes

A language for special purposes is a language defined by its particular technical vocabulary. Of course, some work language includes expressions that are specific to the profession, eg. condition of ...

Emergentisme

Language; Linguistics

A view of first language acquisition , Elizabeth Bates advocated by Michael Tomasello and others that at odds with nativism State. this view is that when children acquire a language, what they ...

semiotics

Language; Linguistics

The study of signs and sign processes (semiosis), indication, designation, likeness, analogy, metaphor, symbolism, signification, and communication. Semiotics is closely related to the field of ...

linguistics

Language; Linguistics

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Linguistics covers two main areas: theoretical and applied linguistics. Theoretical (or ...

cognitive semantics

Language; Linguistics

The area of study known as cognitive semantics is concerned with investigating the relationship between experience, the conceptual system and the semantic structure encoded by language. In specific ...

Prototype Theory

Language; Linguistics

A theory of human categorization that was posited by Eleanor Rosch in order to account for experimental findings that she and her colleagues uncovered during the 1970s. Prototype theory holds that ...