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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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schema-instance organization

Language; Linguistics

In cognitive grammar, linguistic units are held to form a structured network of schemas. Schemas are modeled in hierarchical fashion in terms of a more abstract schema and more ...

schematic categories

Language; Linguistics

The categories which make up the schematic systems in the conceptual structuring system approach. Each schematic system is made up of several schematic categories which serve to ...

schematic meaning

Language; Linguistics

The kind of meaning associated with elements in the conceptual structuring system as encoded by closed class forms. Meaning of this kind is not rich in nature, and thus contrasts ...

schematic systems

Language; Linguistics

In the conceptual structuring system approach, the conceptual structuring system is based upon a limited number of large-scale schematic systems. These provide the basic ...

schematization

Language; Linguistics

A special kind of abstraction. Results in representations that are much less detailed than the actual utterances that give rise to them. Schematisation results in a schema. A ...

scope of predication

Language; Linguistics

Relates to that part of a domain matrix which is essential for the meaning of a linguistic unit. The scope of predication is divided into two constituent entities, the profile and ...

search domain

Language; Linguistics

That part of a spatial scene which is indicated, by linguistic prompts, as the region to be ‘searched’ in order to locate the trajector. For instance, the utterance : near the ...