Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

The entity in conceptual metonymy which is highlighted or accessed by virtue of a second entity known as a vehicle. A target is typically not encoded linguistically in linguistic manifestations of ...

abstract domain

Language; Linguistics

A domain which is not directly grounded in embodied experience and thus stands in contrast to a basic domain. Abstract domains include marriage, love or medieval musicology. Although such domains are ...

access

Language; Linguistics

Refers to the phenomenon in LCCM theory whereby the selection of a given lexical concept makes a particular cognitive model profile accessible for activation. In practice only a small part of a ...

access principle

Language; Linguistics

Captures one of the central structuring properties associated with mental space formation and their proliferation in terms of a mental spaces lattice. The access principle holds that any linguistic ...

access route

Language; Linguistics

The path of activation through a cognitive model profile afforded by a lexical concept given the particular linguistic and extralinguistic context in which it is embedded.

access site

Language; Linguistics

The point in a cognitive model profile where a lexical concept affords access.

action chain

Language; Linguistics

A model proposed in cognitive grammar which serves as the conceptual basis for the semantic notions of agent and patient. An action chain involves an active ‘energy source’ that transfers energy to ...