Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Composite prototype

Language; Linguistics

A prototype derived from two or more ICM s providing highly schematic information. A composite prototype can give rise to further variants established via convention, and thus provides prototype ...

The second important aspect of the human intention-reading ability, central to first language acquisition, involves the recognition of communicative intention. This happens when the child recognises ...

Complex temporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of temporal relations. Complex temporal relations like simple temporal relations involve a process, and hence a temporal relation, because they construe scenes that hold over a given ...

Cognitive representation (CR)

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Leonard Talmy, similar in nature to the notion of the conceptual system. In Talmy's conceptual structuring system approach the language user employs linguistic resources specialised ...

Complex

Language; Linguistics

Refers to a symbolic assembly which contains smaller symbolic assemblies as subparts. Complex symbolic assemblies vary according to the level of complexity, from words (for example, dogs ) and ...

Complex atemporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of atemporal relations. A complex atemporal relation encodes a complex static scene, as in the following example: the sand all over the floor . What makes this scene 'complex' is that ...

Cognitive poetics

Language; Linguistics

An approach to the study of literature which applies ideas, constructs and methodology from cognitive linguistics. One of the most influential pioneers in cognitive poetics is Mark Turner .