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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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Dialog-like interaction
Language; Linguistics
Exchanges or communication among people that resembles the form of a dialog.
Deictics
Language; Linguistics
A word that points to the contextual information of a person, time, place or situation. "This", "his" and "here" are examples of deictic expressions.
Standard Spanish
Language; Linguistics
A linguistic variety (also called "neutral Spanish") that is considered correct and understandable for the Spanish language environment, being accepted as well among educators and the Hispanic world.
Mexican Spanish
Language; Linguistics
A variant of the Spanish language spoken in Mexico or in places contained of Mexican immigrants or inhabitants in foreign countries of Mexican background.
Lexical deficiencies
Language; Linguistics
A general lack of word stock of a language. The lexicon refers to words, expressions and vocabulary.
Phraseology
Language; Linguistics
The study of fixed expressions and phrases in word groupings that take on meanings from the sum of components' independent meanings.
Signs
Language; Linguistics
In semiotics, a sign is generally defined as, "...something that stands for something else, to someone in some capacity. It may be understood as a discrete unit of meaning, whether denotative or ...
