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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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decoding idioms

Language; Linguistics

An expression such as kick the bucket that has to be decoded or ‘learnt whole’. Decoding idioms are those whose meaning cannot be constructed from the sum of the individual lexical items that ...

In an integration network, the process whereby the emergent structure in the blended space is separated, so that the counterparts and outer-space relations that produced it can be reconstructed. In ...

degree of extension

Language; Linguistics

One of the schematic categories in the configurational system. Degree of extension relates to how far quantities of space or time ‘stretch’ over distance. This category interacts with boundedness, ...

direction

Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category interacts closely with the attentional system and concerns the direction in which an event is viewed relative to a given ...

discourse metaphor

Language; Linguistics

A construct developed in the work of Jörg Zinken . Discourse metaphors emerge in discourse and are conventionally tied to a particular linguistic form. That is, they are explicitly claimed not to be ...

distance

Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to distance of a referent relative to a speaker or hearer and is encoded by closed class forms. For instance, ...

distributed spatial semantics

Language; Linguistics

An approach to analyzing meaning and expression in spatial language developed by Chris Sinha and Tania Kuteva . This approach starts from the rejection of the assumption that spatial meaning (for ...