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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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guiding principles of cognitive semantics
Language; Linguistics

As with the larger enterprise of cognitive linguistics of which it is a part, cognitive semantics is not a single unified framework. Those researchers who identify themselves as ...

hiding and highlighting
Language; Linguistics

The idea in conceptual metaphor theory that when a target domain is structured in terms of a particular source domain, this highlights certain aspects of the target while ...

holophrase
Language; Linguistics

When a child first produces identifiable units of language at around the age of twelve months these are individual lexical items. Yet, these lexical items do not relate to the ...

homologous categories
Language; Linguistics

Domains such as time and space which appear to share certain structural properties and can thus exhibit conceptual alternativity. For instance, both space and time can be ...

homonymy
Language; Linguistics

A lexical relation which concerns two or more distinct words that happen to share the same form in sound (homophones) and/or in writing (homographs). For example, the form bank ...

ideal
Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. An ideal ICM contrasts with social stereotypes and typical examples. For example, we might have an ideal for the category politician: someone who is ...

ideal meaning
Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Anette Herskovits in her work on English prepositions to refer to the central or most salient lexical concept associated with a given linguistic unit.

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