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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Level of attention
Language; Linguistics
One of the kinds of pattern which serve to govern the distribution of attention in the attentional system. The 'level of attention' pattern involves the level of detail at which attention is being ...
Level C
Language; Linguistics
In mental spaces theory, the level at which meaning-construction, or conceptualization, occurs. Level C is a level of conceptual processing 'above' the level of semantic structure as encoded by ...
Schematization
Language; Linguistics
A special kind of abstraction. Results in representations that are much less detailed than the actual utterances that give rise to them. Schematisation results in a schema. A schema is achieved by ...
Schematic systems
Language; Linguistics
In the conceptual structuring system approach, the conceptual structuring system is based upon a limited number of large-scale schematic systems. These provide the basic organisation of the cognitive ...
Schematic meaning
Language; Linguistics
The kind of meaning associated with elements in the conceptual structuring system as encoded by closed class forms. Meaning of this kind is not rich in nature, and thus contrasts with the meaning ...
Scene encoding hypothesis
Language; Linguistics
In construction grammar (2) the hypothesis that the prototype for a particular instance of constructional polysemy relates to a recurring scene from everyday experience which is encoded by the ...
Schema induction
Language; Linguistics
In mental spaces theory, the process whereby knowledge structures such as idealised cognitive models or semantic frames are recruited in order to provide a mental space with internal ...
