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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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decoding idioms
Language; Linguistics

An expression such as kick the bucket that has to be decoded or ‘learnt whole’. Decoding idioms are those whose meaning cannot be constructed from the sum of the individual ...

decompression
Language; Linguistics

In an integration network, the process whereby the emergent structure in the blended space is separated, so that the counterparts and outer-space relations that produced it can be ...

degree of extension
Language; Linguistics

One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Degree of extension relates to how far quantities of space or time ‘stretch’ over distance. This category interacts ...

direction
Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category interacts closely with the attentional system and concerns the direction in which an event is viewed ...

discourse metaphor
Language; Linguistics

A construct developed in the work of Jörg Zinken . Discourse metaphors emerge in discourse and are conventionally tied to a particular linguistic form. That is, they are ...

distance
Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to distance of a referent relative to a speaker or hearer and is encoded by closed class ...

distributed spatial semantics
Language; Linguistics

An approach to analyzing meaning and expression in spatial language developed by Chris Sinha and Tania Kuteva . This approach starts from the rejection of the assumption that ...

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