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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Division of pragmatic labour
Language; Linguistics
The use of a marked creatively complex expression when a corresponding unmarked alternate expression is available tends to be interpreted as conveying a marked message(one which the unmarked ...
Perlocutionary act
Language; Linguistics
The act performed by or resulting from saying something. The consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance.
Communicative principle of relevance
Language; Linguistics
Every act of ostensive communication communicates the presumption of its own optimal relevance.
Illocutionary act
Language; Linguistics
The act performed in saying something;its force is identical with the speaker's intention.
Relevance
Language; Linguistics
A property that any utterance,or a proposition that it communicates,must,in the nature of communication,necessarily have.
Ostensive communication
Language; Linguistics
A complete characterization of communication is that it is ostensive-infer-ential.
Entailment
Language; Linguistics
Relation between propositions one of which necessarily follows from the other.
