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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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thinking for speaking
Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Dan Slobin . Captures the idea that a particular language forces its speakers to pay attention to certain aspects of scenes of experience for purposes of ...

time-based cognitive model for time
Language; Linguistics

A temporal reference frame which serves to ‘locate’ events by virtue of their relationship to other temporal events. A central inference associated with this cognitive model is ...

trajector (TR)
Language; Linguistics

The focal, or most prominent, participant in a profiled relationship.

trajector-landmark organization
Language; Linguistics

A notion developed in cognitive grammar. Relates to the relative prominence of participants in a linguistically encoded scene and reflects the more general perceptual phenomenon ...

trajector-landmark reversal
Language; Linguistics

A grammatical phenomenon in which the trajector and landmark in a profiled relationship are reversed. For instance, active and passive constructions exhibit trajector-landmark ...

typical examples
Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. Typicality ICMs arise from a typical example of a particular category. For instance, in some cultures robin and sparrow are typical members of the ...

typicality effects
Language; Linguistics

Relates to the phenomenon whereby a particular instance or exemplar is judged as being more or less representative of a given category. Typicality effects are held, in prototype ...

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