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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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generic-level metaphor
Language; Linguistics

A term coined by George Lakoff and Mark Turner in their application of conceptual metaphor theory to poetic metaphor. Relates to a relatively schematic or abstract level of ...

gestalt
Language; Linguistics

An organized whole or unit. The central notion in the movement known as Gestalt psychology.

Gestalt psychology
Language; Linguistics

A movement in psychology which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, representing a move away from the atomistic outlook that had been prevalent in psychology, ...

goals of blending
Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, conceptual integration is held to be motivated by an overarching goal and a number of notable sub-goals. The overarching goal and primary motivation for the ...

goodness-of-example ratings
Language; Linguistics

An experimental means, devised by Eleanor Rosch in the early 1970s, to investigate the prototype structure of categories. Rosch conducted a series of experiments in which ...

governing principles
Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, the principles that have been proposed in order to constrain the process of conceptual integration or blending. These principles operate in a way that ...

graded grammaticality
Language; Linguistics

A property associated with the utterance (an actual instance of language use). Concerns the observation that utterances occur spontaneously and often exhibit degrees of ...

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