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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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conventions
Language; Linguistics

The ‘norms’ of linguistic behavior in a particular linguistic community. These include, among other things, lexical forms, grammatical patterns, suprasegmental phonology and ...

correlation-based metaphor
Language; Linguistics

A metaphor based on tight and recurring correlations or co-occurrences in experience rather than being motivated by perceived similarity or resemblance between two ...

correspondence principle
Language; Linguistics

One of the two principles that facilitate fusion (1) in construction grammar (2). The Correspondence Principle governs constructional profiling as it relates to the integration of ...

counterparts
Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, elements in different mental spaces that are linked by connectors. Counterparts are established on the basis of ‘pragmatic function’. That is, when two ...

cross-domain mappings
Language; Linguistics

The species of mappings central to conceptual metaphor theory. Mappings of this kind persist in long-term memory and serve to structure one conceptual domain (2), the target ...

cue validity
Language; Linguistics

A probabilistic concept developed in prototype theory. Cue validity is a statistical measure which predicts that a particular cue – or attribute – becomes more valid or relevant ...

debounding
Language; Linguistics

A grammatical operation in which a count entity is converted into a mass entity. For instance in the following: # I have a tomato # After my fall there was tomato all over my ...

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