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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Purport

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Alan Cruse . Relates to the encyclopaedic knowledge associated with a given word. Includes the past uses to which a word has been put. In this regard purport is similar to the ...

Reference object

Language; Linguistics

The less salient element in figure-ground organization. Developed in cognitive linguistics in particular by Leonard Talmy in his conceptual structuring system approach.

Substantive idioms

Language; Linguistics

Idioms of this kind are 'lexically filled', which means that they have fixed lexical items as part of their composition. For example, kick the mop does not have the same communicative impact as ...

Sub-sense

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Alan Cruse . A distinct word meaning that appears to be motivated by the specific situational context in which the word (and the utterance in which the word is embedded) occurs. ...

Sub-part links

Language; Linguistics

One of a number of inheritance links between constructions posited in construction grammar (2). Involves a type of inheritance (2) in which one construction is a proper sub-part of another ...

Subjective experience

Language; Linguistics

Experience of this kind is subjective or internal in nature and includes emotions, consciousness and experiences of time such as awareness of duration (including protracted duration and temporal ...

Subjective construal

Language; Linguistics

A form of construal in which there is implicit dependence on the ground, and thus the context of the utterance, including participants, time of the speech event and so on, is not explicitly ...