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whorfianism
Language; General language
In its most extreme version 'the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis' can be described as relating two associated principles: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativism. Applying these two principles, the ...
linguistic universalism
Language; General language
This term refers to the view that, whilst languages vary in their surface structure, every language is based on the same underlying universal structure or laws. In contrast to linguistic relativists, ...
received pronunciation
Language; General language
Received Pronunciation (RP), also called the Queen's (or King's) English,[1] Oxford English,[2] or BBC English, is the accent of Standard English in England, and to a lesser extent in the other ...
psycholinguistics
Language; General language
Language psychology or psychology of language; emerged the early 1960s in opposition to behaviorism, especially on operant conditioning and processing of meaning. In Europe, psycholinguistics would ...
human physiology
Language; General language
Study of live human organic functions. Linguistically, these are neural, cardiovascular, pulmonary, as well as muscle and tendon functioning to matter most to speech. Already the common cold can ...
doublespeak
Language; General language
Language that is deliberately deceptive and aims to distort, disguise or reverse meaning. The term was popularized in George Orwell's novel 1984.
