Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Interpretation

Language; Linguistics

The second of the two constituent processes of fusion (2) in LCCM theory. Interpretation involves activation of part of the cognitive model profile to which each selected lexical concept in any ...

Invited inferencing theory

Language; Linguistics

A theory of semantic change proposed by Elizabeth Closs Traugott in order to address regularities in semantic change resulting in grammaticalization. This theory is called the Invited Inferencing ...

Let alone construction

Language; Linguistics

A formal idiom studied by Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay and Catherine O'Connor in support of their theory of construction grammar (1). The let alone construction can be described in terms of its ...

A unit of semantic structure conventionally associated with a linguistic form central to LCCM theory. Together, a lexical concept and a form make up a linguistic unit : a conventional form-meaning ...

LCCM Theory

Language; Linguistics

A theory of lexical representation and semantic composition developed by Vyvyan Evans that adheres to the guiding principles of cognitive semantics and the guiding principles of cognitive ...

Language user

Language; Linguistics

A member of a particular linguistic community who, in speaking (and, indeed, in signing or writing), attempts to achieve a particular interactional goal or set of goals using particular linguistic ...

Joint attention frame

Language; Linguistics

The common ground that facilitates understanding of a communicative intention, established as a consequence of a particular goal-directed activity. When an infant and an adult are both looking at and ...