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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Schematic categories

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The categories which make up the schematic systems in the conceptual structuring system approach. Each schematic system is made up of several schematic categories which serve to encode different ...

Search domain

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That part of a spatial scene which is indicated, by linguistic prompts, as the region to be 'searched' in order to locate the trajector. For instance, the utterance : near the fire is warmer , ...

Scope of predication

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Relates to that part of a domain matrix which is essential for the meaning of a linguistic unit. The scope of predication is divided into two constituent entities, the profile and the base.

Schema

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A symbolic assembly viewed from the perspective of the usage-based thesis.

Unification

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In primary metaphor theory, this is the process whereby two or more primary metaphors combine so as to give rise to a compound metaphor. For instance, Joseph Grady , the architect of primary ...

Utterance

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A situated instance of language use which is culturally and contextually embedded and represents an instance of linguistic behaviour on the part of a language user. An utterance has a unit-like ...