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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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encyclopedic knowledge
Language; Linguistics

The structured body of nonlinguistic knowledge to which a linguistic unit such as a word potentially provides access. Encyclopedic knowledge is modeled in terms of a number of ...

encyclopedic semantics
Language; Linguistics

The general approach to linguistic semantics adopted in cognitive semantics. There are five key assumptions which comprise this perspective. Firstly, There is no principled ...

entrenchment
Language; Linguistics

The establishment of a linguistic unit as a cognitive pattern or routine in the mind of an individual language user. The greater the frequency of the linguistic unit in the ...

event space
Language; Linguistics

The mental space which encodes the time reference currently in focus in discourse. Normally the event space and the focus space coincide. However, sometimes an event space can be ...

event structure metaphor
Language; Linguistics

A series of metaphors that often interact in the interpretation of utterances. The individual metaphors that make up the Event Structure Metaphor, together with linguistic ...

excerpting
Language; Linguistics

A grammatical operation in which an unbounded mass entity is converted into a countable entity by virtue of a portion of the mass being ‘excerpted’. For instance in the following: ...

exclusionary fallacy
Language; Linguistics

According to Ronald Langacker , a fallacy in which linguists reason that one analysis or explanation for a given linguistic phenomenon necessarily excludes another. One version ...

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