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The scientific study of human language.

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Metaphoric blend

Language; Linguistics

A metaphor analysed from the perspective of blending theory. From this perspective metaphors involve 'frame-projection asymmetry': while both input spaces contain a distinct frame, it is only the ...

Metaphor system

Language; Linguistics

The idea, developed in the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, that metaphorical language appears to relate to an underlying 'system of thought'. In particular, the conceptual system is held ...

Metaphtonymy

Language; Linguistics

The phenomenon, studied by Louis Goossens, in which metaphor and metonymy interact. While Goossens identified a number of logically possible ways in which metaphor and metonymy could potentially ...

Mental spaces lattice

Language; Linguistics

Once a mental space has been constructed, it is linked to the other mental spaces established during discourse. As discourse proceeds, mental spaces proliferate giving rise to a mental spaces ...

Resemblance-based metaphor

Language; Linguistics

A metaphor based on a perceived resemblance between two entities rather than being motivated by embodied experience. Resemblance based metaphor thus contrasts with correlation based metaphor. An ...

Replicator

Language; Linguistics

An element of language realised in an utterance. A central construct in utterance selection theory.

An example of a conceptual conversion operation. Relates to the operation that converts our conceptualization of time (or action) into space (or matter): an act can be converted into an object or an ...