Home > Industry/Domain > Language > Terminology

Terminology

Terminology is the meaning of terms and thier use.

Contributors in Terminology

Terminology

Figurative

Language; Terminology

Any use of a word in a non-literal sense, e.g. at the foot of the mountain where foot is employed figuratively to indicate the bottom of the mountain.

Formalist

Language; Terminology

An adjective referring to linguistic analysis which lay emphasis on relatively abstract conceptions of language structure.

Generative

Language; Terminology

A reference to a type of linguistic analysis which relies heavily on the formulation of rules for the exhaustive description (generation) of the sentences of a language.

Hierarchy

Language; Terminology

Hierarchy is a system of elements ranked, classified and organised one above another, according to significance or importance.

Lay speaker

Language; Terminology

A general term to refer to an individual who does not possess linguistic training and who can be taken to be largely unaware of the structure of language.

Economy

Language; Terminology

A principle of linguistic analysis which demands that rules and units are to be kept to a minimum, i.e. every postulated rule or unit must be justified linguistically by capturing a generalisation ...

Duality of patterning

Language; Terminology

A structural principle of human language whereby larger units consist of smaller building blocks, the number of such blocks being limited but the combination being almost infinite. For instance all ...

Featured blossaries

JK. Rowling

Category: Literature   2 8 Terms

Mineral Water Brands

Category: Health   1 7 Terms