Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

These are idiomatic expressions that obey the usual rules of grammar. For example, in the grammatical idiom spill the beans , a verb takes a noun phrase complement. Grammatical idioms contrast with ...

Modular approach

Language; Linguistics

An approach informed by the modular theory of mind. This theory, associated in particular with formal linguistics, is also explored in other areas of cognitive science such as philosophy and ...

Monosemy

Language; Linguistics

Associated with work in lexical semantics from the perspective of formal linguistics. While formal lexical semanticists have long recognised the existence of polysemy, it has generally been viewed as ...

Moving ego model

Language; Linguistics

An ego-based cognitive model for time. In this cognitive model, time is a landscape over which the ego moves, and is understood by virtue of the motion of the ego across this landscape, towards ...

Mirror network

Language; Linguistics

A type of integration network in which all the mental spaces in the network share a common frame, including the blended space. An example of a mirror network is the boat race blend discussed by ...

Mimetic schema

Language; Linguistics

A form of body-based representation proposed by Jordan Zlatev which builds on the notion of mimesis and which is hypothesised to ground linguistic meaning. The mimetic schema is also claimed to be ...

Metonymy within metaphor

Language; Linguistics

One way in which metaphor and metonymy can interact, and thus one kind of the more general phenomenon known as metaphtonymy. To illustrate, consider the following example: She caught the Prime ...