Terminology

Terminology

Terminology is the meaning of terms and thier use.

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Terminology

Descriptive

Language; Terminology

An approach to linguistics which is concerned with saying what language is like and not what it should be like (prescriptivism).

Diachronic

Language; Terminology

Refers to language viewed over time and contrasts with synchronic which refers to a point in time. This is one of the major structural distinctions introduced by Saussure and which is used to ...

Creativity

Language; Terminology

An accepted feature of human language — deriving from the phenomenon of sentence generation — which accounts for speakers' ability to produce and to understand a theoretically infinite number of ...

An agreement, usually reached unconsciously by speakers in a community, that relationships are to apply between linguistic items, between these and the outside world or to apply in the use of rules ...

Alalia

Language; Terminology

Disability to speak which is caused by defects or damages on external speech organs, not on central nervous system.

Applied linguistics

Language; Terminology

The application of insights from theoretical linguistics to practical matters such as language teaching, remedial linguistic therapy, language planning and so forth.

Arbitrariness

Language; Terminology

An essential notion in structural linguistics which denies any necessary relationship between linguistic signs and their referents, e.g. objects in the outside world.