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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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perspectival system
Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic systems which form part of the conceptual structuring system. The perspectival system establishes a viewpoint from which participants and scenes are ...

perspective
Language; Linguistics

One of the three parameters of focal adjustment. Relates to the way in which a scene is viewed, including the relative prominence of its participants. The case of an active and ...

plexity
Language; Linguistics

One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Plexity relates to whether a quantity of time or space consists of one (uniplex) or more than one (multiplex) ...

polysemy fallacy
Language; Linguistics

A fallacy in reasoning committed by some scholars who take a cognitive lexical semantics approach, particularly as evident in the full-specification model of polysemy. Dominiek ...

polysemy 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 a construction with a similar syntactic ...

pragmatic strengthening
Language; Linguistics

A notion developed by Elizabeth Closs Traugott in work on semantic change and applied and developed in the theory of principled polysemy in attempting to account for how ...

primary metaphor
Language; Linguistics

The foundational level of metaphoric representation and the central construct in primary metaphor theory. A primary metaphor, in contrast to a conceptual metaphor, relates ...

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