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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Mapping
Language; Linguistics
One of the factors which governs the attentional system in the conceptual structuring system. Mapping governs the way in which parts of an attention pattern are mapped onto parts of the scene ...
Location
Language; Linguistics
One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to the location that a perspective point occupies relative to a given utterance. The linguistic system of ...
Linguistic unit
Language; Linguistics
A general term for the fundamental unit of language. This term is sometimes employed in cognitive linguistics in place of theoryspecific terms such as symbolic assembly and construction (1). ...
Linguistic relativity
Language; Linguistics
The view that the language one speaks affects or determines how you see the world, most famously expounded in the writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf in the 1930s and 1940s, but also influenced by the ...
Lexicon-grammar continuum
Language; Linguistics
The idea that while there is a qualitative distinction between linguistic units encoded by open class forms and closed class forms respectively, there is not a principled distinction between the two. ...
Lexical concept selection
Language; Linguistics
One of the two component processes of lexical concept integration. Lexical concept selection involves selecting the most appropriate lexical concept associated with each form in an utterance, guided ...
Lingueme
Language; Linguistics
An element of language that is realised in an utterance and that can therefore count as a replicator. A lingueme includes sound segments, words, morphemes and grammatical constructions. Crucially, ...
