Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

A property associated with the utterance (an actual instance of language use). Concerns the observation that utterances occur spontaneously and often exhibit degrees of grammatical well-formedness. ...

Generic space

Language; Linguistics

In an integration network, the generic space provides information that is abstract enough to be common to both (or all) the input spaces. blending theory holds that integration networks are, in part, ...

Generic-level metaphor

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by George Lakoff and Mark Turner in their application of conceptual metaphor theory to poetic metaphor. Relates to a relatively schematic or abstract level of metaphoric ...

Governing principles

Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, the principles that have been proposed in order to constrain the process of conceptual integration or blending. These principles operate in a way that facilitates the goals of ...

Gestalt

Language; Linguistics

An organised whole or unit. The central notion in the movement known as Gestalt psychology.

Network model

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, Ronald Langacker proposes a network model in order to account for the structure of grammatical categories. In this model, members of a category are viewed as nodes in a ...

Moving time model

Language; Linguistics

An ego-based cognitive model for time. In this cognitive model, there is an ego (the subjective experiencer), who may either be implicit or linguistically coded by expressions such as I . The ego's ...