Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

In an integration network, the process whereby the emergent structure in the blended space is separated, so that the counterparts and outer-space relations that produced it can be reconstructed. In ...

Decoding idioms

Language; Linguistics

An expression such as kick the bucket that has to be decoded or 'learnt whole'. Decoding idioms are those whose meaning cannot be constructed from the sum of the individual lexical items that ...

Conventions

Language; Linguistics

The 'norms' of linguistic behaviour in a particular linguistic community. These include, among other things, lexical forms, grammatical patterns, suprasegmental phonology and discourse strategies.

Goals of blending

Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, conceptual integration is held to be motivated by an overarching goal and a number of notable sub-goals. The overarching goal and primary motivation for the process of conceptual ...

Generators

Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. Members of some categories are 'generated' by a core subset of category members called generators. These generators are judged to be more prototypical than the other category ...

Gestalt psychology

Language; Linguistics

A movement in psychology which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, representing a move away from the atomistic outlook that had been prevalent in psychology, particularly in terms of ...

Goodness-of-example ratings

Language; Linguistics

An experimental means, devised by Eleanor Rosch in the early 1970s, to investigate the prototype structure of categories. Rosch conducted a series of experiments in which subjects were asked to ...