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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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socio-cognitive mechanisms in language acquisition
Language; Linguistics
Relates to the view that children bring a battery of socio-cognitive skills to the language acquisition process and is advocated by developmental psycholinguists who take an ...
source domain
Language; Linguistics
In conceptual metaphor theory the source domain is the domain (2) which provides structure by virtue of metaphor. This is achieved by cross-domain mappings projecting structure ...
space builders
Language; Linguistics
In mental spaces theory, mental spaces are set up by space builders which are linguistic units that either prompt for the construction of a new mental space or shift attention ...
reification
Language; Linguistics
An example of a conceptual conversion operation. Relates to the operation that converts our conceptualization of time (or action) into space (or matter): an act can be converted ...
relation
Language; Linguistics
In mental spaces theory, a relation can be assigned as holding between elements in a given mental space. In the following sentence: In the picture, a witch is riding a unicorn , ...
relational predication
Language; Linguistics
In cognitive grammar, a relational predication relates to the schematic meaning encoded by lexical classes such as verbs, adjectives, prepositions and so on (relations). The term ...
relationships between constructions
Language; Linguistics
In construction grammar (2), the construction consists of a network of constructions and relationships between them. Relationships between constructions are captured in terms of ...
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