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Language

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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viewpoint space

Language; Linguistics

The mental space from which the discourse is currently being viewed and from which other spaces in a mental spaces lattice are currently being built.

vital relations

Language; Linguistics

In an integration network, vital relations are the connectors that serve to identify counterparts within and across mental spaces. Gilles Fauconnier and Mark Turner argue that ...

What’s X doing Y? construction

Language; Linguistics

An idiomatic expression studied by Paul Kay and Charles Fillmore in support of their theory of construction grammar (1). Like the let alone construction, the What’s X doing Y? ...

window of attention

Language; Linguistics

One of the kinds of pattern which serve to govern the distribution of attention in the attentional system. The window of attention pattern involves the explicit mention of some ...

XYZ construction

Language; Linguistics

A grammatical construction (1) specialized for prompting for conceptual integration studied in detail by Mark Turner . Some examples of this construction include the following: ...

rule/list fallacy

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Ronald Langacker to describe a specific instance of the exclusionary fallacy. To commit the rule/list fallacy is to exclude, for instance, listing a unit such ...