Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

The area of study known as cognitive semantics is concerned with investigating the relationship between experience, the conceptual system and the semantic structure encoded by language. In specific ...

communicative intention

Language; Linguistics

The second important aspect of the human intention-reading ability, central to first language acquisition, involves the recognition of communicative intention. This happens when the child recognizes ...

completion

Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, one of the three component processes that give rise to emergent structure. Completion involves schema induction : the recruitment of background frames. These complete the ...

complex

Language; Linguistics

Refers to a symbolic assembly which contains smaller symbolic assemblies as subparts. Complex symbolic assemblies vary according to the level of complexity, from words (for example, dogs ) and ...

complex atemporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of atemporal relations. A complex atemporal relation encodes a complex static scene, as in the following example: the sand all over the floor . What makes this scene ‘complex’ is that ...

complex temporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of temporal relations. Complex temporal relations like simple temporal relations involve a process, and hence a temporal relation, because they construe scenes that hold over a given ...

composite prototype

Language; Linguistics

A prototype derived from two or more ICM s providing highly schematic information. A composite prototype can give rise to further variants established via convention, and thus provides prototype ...