Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

The subfield of linguistics which studies meaning that is used to understand human expression through language. The formal study of semantics intersects with many other fields of inquiry, including ...

Pragmatics

Language; Linguistics

A branch of linguistics which studies the ways in which context contributes to meaning. Pragmatics encompasses speech act theory, conversational implicature, talk in interaction and other approaches ...

Access principle

Language; Linguistics

Captures one of the central structuring properties associated with mental space formation and their proliferation in terms of a mental spaces lattice. The access principle holds that any linguistic ...

Domain

Language; Linguistics

A conceptual entity employed in conceptual metaphor theory and related approaches to conceptual projection such as approaches to conceptual metonymy and primary metaphor theory. Conceptual domains ...

Abstract domain

Language; Linguistics

A domain which is not directly grounded in embodied experience and thus stands in contrast to a basic domain. Abstract domains include marriage, love or mediaeval musicology. Although such domains ...

Target

Language; Linguistics

The entity in conceptual metonymy which is highlighted or accessed by virtue of a second entity known as a vehicle. A target is typically not encoded linguistically in linguistic manifestations of ...

Elaboration

Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, one of the three component processes that give rise to emergent structure in the blended space. Elaboration is the process whereby structure which emerges due to composition and ...