Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

The phenomenologically real experience in which time 'feels' as if it is proceeding 'more slowly' than usual and is most often associated with our experience of routine behaviours which we carry out ...

Syncopation

Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, a kind of compression in which a vital relation holding between input spaces (an outer-space relation ) gives rise to reduced complexity in the blended space, thereby giving rise ...

Superschematic rule

Language; Linguistics

The requirement within the framework of primary metaphor theory that what distinguishes metaphor of any sort from metonymy, idioms and other kinds of figurative expression is that the target and ...

Superschematic structure

Language; Linguistics

A notion developed within primary metaphor theory. Relates to the observation that highly schematic elements of conceptual structure are shared by the primary target concept and the primary source ...

Target domain

Language; Linguistics

In conceptual metaphor theory the target domain is the domain (2) being structured by virtue of metaphor. This is achieved due to cross-domain mappings projecting structure from the source domain ...

Symbolic assembly

Language; Linguistics

A linguistic unit and the fundamental unit of grammar in Ronald Langacker's theory of cognitive grammar. The symbolic assembly has two poles: a semantic pole (its meaning) and a phonological pole ...

Temporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of the larger category relational predication. Temporal relations are processes which are encoded by verbs and which are accessed via sequential scanning. Temporal relations can be ...