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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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base space
Language; Linguistics

The mental space which represents the starting point for a particular stage in discourse, such as the beginning of a conversation. The base space serves to set up the discourse; ...

metaphoric entailment
Language; Linguistics

In addition to the cross-domain mappings that conceptual metaphors bring with them, they can also provide additional, sometimes quite detailed knowledge. This is because aspects ...

metaphorical extension links
Language; Linguistics

One of a number of inheritance links between constructions posited in construction grammar (2). Involves a type of inheritance (2) in which some constructions are metaphorical ...

metaphtonymy
Language; Linguistics

The phenomenon, studied by Louis Goossens, in which metaphor and metonymy interact. While Goossens identified a number of logically possible ways in which metaphor and metonymy ...

metonymic ICM
Language; Linguistics

An ICM that comes to stand for the entire category of which it is a member. This can work in two ways. Firstly, an ICM can be a sub-category of a cluster model and come to stand ...

metonymy within metaphor
Language; Linguistics

One way in which metaphor and metonymy can interact, and thus one kind of the more general phenomenon known as metaphtonymy. To illustrate, consider the following example: She ...

mimesis
Language; Linguistics

According to evolutionary psychologist Merlin Donald , a form of cognitive representation that was crucial to the development of the cognitively modern mind, and advanced ...

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