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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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conventions

Language; Linguistics

The ‘norms’ of linguistic behavior in a particular linguistic community. These include, among other things, lexical forms, grammatical patterns, suprasegmental phonology and discourse strategies.

correlation-based metaphor

Language; Linguistics

A metaphor based on tight and recurring correlations or co-occurrences in experience rather than being motivated by perceived similarity or resemblance between two entities. Correlation-based ...

One of the two principles that facilitate fusion (1) in construction grammar (2). The Correspondence Principle governs constructional profiling as it relates to the integration of argument roles and ...

counterparts

Language; Linguistics

In mental spaces theory, elements in different mental spaces that are linked by connectors. Counterparts are established on the basis of ‘pragmatic function’. That is, when two (or more) elements in ...

cross-domain mappings

Language; Linguistics

The species of mappings central to conceptual metaphor theory. Mappings of this kind persist in long-term memory and serve to structure one conceptual domain (2), the target domain, in terms of ...

cue validity

Language; Linguistics

A probabilistic concept developed in prototype theory. Cue validity is a statistical measure which predicts that a particular cue – or attribute – becomes more valid or relevant to a given category ...

debounding

Language; Linguistics

A grammatical operation in which a count entity is converted into a mass entity. For instance in the following: # I have a tomato # After my fall there was tomato all over my face the count noun ...