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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Idiomatic expressions

Language; Linguistics

Conventional linguistic units which are not predictable simply by knowing the grammar 'rules' and the vocabulary of a language. For this reason, idiomatic expressions are described as ...

Ideal

Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. An ideal ICM contrasts with social stereotypes and typical examples. For example, we might have an ideal for the category politician: someone who is public-spirited, ...

Homologous categories

Language; Linguistics

Domains such as time and space which appear to share certain structural properties and can thus exhibit conceptual alternativity. For instance, both space and time can be conceived in terms of ...

In an integration network, an outer space relation is a vital relation that holds between counterparts across input spaces. This contrasts with the notion of an inner-space relation. To illustrate, ...

Over

Language; Linguistics

One of the most well-studied words of recent times. In a pioneering 1981 Master's thesis Claudia Brugman carried out a detailed study of over showing the motivated nature of word-meaning, arguing ...

Paragons

Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. Individual category members that represent ideals are paragons. For instance, a car manufactured by Rolls-Royce represents a paragon in terms of luxury cars, Nelson Mandela ...

Optimization principle

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, the principle that allows counterparts of an element, together with properties and relations, to spread through the mental spaces lattice. The optimization principle ...