Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Locutionary act

Language; Linguistics

The act of saying something; an act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology. Namely, the utterance of a sentence with determinate sense and reference.

Sociolinguistics of society

Language; Linguistics

One of the two things in sociolinguistics,in which we try to understand sociological things of society by examining linguistic phenomena of a speaking community.

Variationist linguistics

Language; Linguistics

A branch of linguistics which studies the relationship between speakers' social starts and phonological variations.

Phatic communion

Language; Linguistics

One function of human language,which refers to the social interaction of language.

Constative

Language; Linguistics

An utterance by which a speaker expresses a proposition which may be true or false.

Competence

Language; Linguistics

Language user's underlying knowledge about the system of rules.

The extra meaning not contained in the literal utterances, understandable to the listener only when he shares the speaker's knowledge or knows why and how he intentionally violates one of the four ...