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Language

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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target
Language; Linguistics

The entity in conceptual metonymy which is highlighted or accessed by virtue of a second entity known as a vehicle. A target is typically not encoded linguistically in linguistic ...

abstract domain
Language; Linguistics

A domain which is not directly grounded in embodied experience and thus stands in contrast to a basic domain. Abstract domains include marriage, love or medieval musicology. ...

access
Language; Linguistics

Refers to the phenomenon in LCCM theory whereby the selection of a given lexical concept makes a particular cognitive model profile accessible for activation. In practice only a ...

access principle
Language; Linguistics

Captures one of the central structuring properties associated with mental space formation and their proliferation in terms of a mental spaces lattice. The access principle holds ...

access route
Language; Linguistics

The path of activation through a cognitive model profile afforded by a lexical concept given the particular linguistic and extralinguistic context in which it is embedded.

access site
Language; Linguistics

The point in a cognitive model profile where a lexical concept affords access.

action chain
Language; Linguistics

A model proposed in cognitive grammar which serves as the conceptual basis for the semantic notions of agent and patient. An action chain involves an active ‘energy source’ that ...

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