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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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mental space
Language; Linguistics

Mental spaces are regions of conceptual space that contain specific kinds of information. They are constructed on the basis of generalized linguistic, pragmatic and cultural ...

mental spaces lattice
Language; Linguistics

Once a mental space has been constructed, it is linked to the other mental spaces established during discourse. As discourse proceeds, mental spaces proliferate giving rise to a ...

mental spaces theory
Language; Linguistics

A theory of dynamic meaning construction developed in particular by Gilles Fauconnier and extended in the work of Seana Coulson , Barbara Dancygier , Eve Sweetser and ...

metaphor from metonymy
Language; Linguistics

One way in which metaphor and metonymy can interact and thus one kind of the more general phenomenon known as metaphtonymy. In this form of interaction, a metaphor is grounded in ...

metaphor system
Language; Linguistics

The idea, developed in the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, that metaphorical language appears to relate to an underlying ‘system of thought’. In particular, the ...

metaphoric blend
Language; Linguistics

A metaphor analyzed from the perspective of blending theory. From this perspective metaphors involve ‘frame-projection asymmetry’: while both input spaces contain a distinct ...

frame
Language; Linguistics

A schematization of experience (a knowledge structure), which is represented at the conceptual level and held in long-term memory and which relates elements and entities ...

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