Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

Diachronic

Language; Linguistics

Study of a language carried through the course of its history.

Descriptive

Language; Linguistics

A kind of linguistic study in which things are just described.

Narrator’s representation of thought acts

Language; Linguistics

An approach used by novelists to present the thoughts of their characters are exactly the same as those used to represent speech, e.g. he spent the day thinking.

Narrator’s representation of speech acts

A minimalist kind of presentation in which a part of passage can be seen as a summary of a longer piece of discourse, and therefore even more backgrounded than indirect speech representation would ...

Narrator's representation of thought acts

Language; Linguistics

An approach used by novelists to represent the thoughts of their characters exactly matching that used to present speech acts. For example, she considered his unpunctuality.

Indirect thought

Language; Linguistics

A kind of categories used by novelist to represent the thoughts of their characters are exactly as that used to present indirect speech. For example,she thought that he would be late.