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Of of pertaining to any method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way, whether united in a system specific to a country or region.
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cognitive semantics
Language; Linguistics
The area of study known as cognitive semantics is concerned with investigating the relationship between experience, the conceptual system and the semantic structure encoded by ...
communicative intention
Language; Linguistics
The second important aspect of the human intention-reading ability, central to first language acquisition, involves the recognition of communicative intention. This happens when ...
completion
Language; Linguistics
In blending theory, one of the three component processes that give rise to emergent structure. Completion involves schema induction : the recruitment of background frames. These ...
complex
Language; Linguistics
Refers to a symbolic assembly which contains smaller symbolic assemblies as subparts. Complex symbolic assemblies vary according to the level of complexity, from words (for ...
complex atemporal relations
Language; Linguistics
A sub-category of atemporal relations. A complex atemporal relation encodes a complex static scene, as in the following example: the sand all over the floor . What makes this ...
complex temporal relations
Language; Linguistics
A sub-category of temporal relations. Complex temporal relations like simple temporal relations involve a process, and hence a temporal relation, because they construe scenes that ...
composite prototype
Language; Linguistics
A prototype derived from two or more ICM s providing highly schematic information. A composite prototype can give rise to further variants established via convention, and thus ...
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