Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

A term in contrast with etic which originates from American linguist Pike's distinction of phonetics and phonemics. An emic set of speech acts and events must be one that is validated as meaningful ...

Etic

Language; Linguistics

A term in contrast with emic which originates from American linguist Pike's distinction of phonetics and phonemics. Being etic means making far too many, as well as behaviourly inconsequential ...

Function

Language; Linguistics

The action or activity that people perform by using language, such as e.g. expressing feelings or views, exchanging information, communication in general, establishing social contacts, etc.

Design feature

Language; Linguistics

Features that define human language, such as arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement, cultural transmission etc.

Metalanguage

Language; Linguistics

In logic and linguistics, a metalanguage is a language used to make statements about other languages (object languages). Formal syntactic models for the description of grammar, e.g. generative ...

Macrolinguistics

Language; Linguistics

The interactive study between language and language-related disciplines such as psychology, sociology, ethnography, science of law and artificial intelligence etc. Branches of macrolinguistics ...

Performative

Language; Linguistics

An utterance which is designed to have an effect (as opposed to constative utterances, which may be true or false). An example is "I pronounce you man and wife". The concept of performative ...