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Terminology
Terminology is the meaning of terms and thier use.
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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 ...