Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

The mental space which represents the starting point for a particular stage in discourse, such as the beginning of a conversation. The base space serves to set up the discourse; it is with respect to ...

metaphoric entailment

Language; Linguistics

In addition to the cross-domain mappings that conceptual metaphors bring with them, they can also provide additional, sometimes quite detailed knowledge. This is because aspects of the source domain ...

metaphorical extension links

Language; Linguistics

One of a number of inheritance links between constructions posited in construction grammar (2). Involves a type of inheritance (2) in which some constructions are metaphorical extensions of other ...

metaphtonymy

Language; Linguistics

The phenomenon, studied by Louis Goossens, in which metaphor and metonymy interact. While Goossens identified a number of logically possible ways in which metaphor and metonymy could potentially ...

metonymic ICM

Language; Linguistics

An ICM that comes to stand for the entire category of which it is a member. This can work in two ways. Firstly, an ICM can be a sub-category of a cluster model and come to stand for the entire ...

metonymy within metaphor

Language; Linguistics

One way in which metaphor and metonymy can interact, and thus one kind of the more general phenomenon known as metaphtonymy. To illustrate, consider the following example: She caught the Prime ...

mimesis

Language; Linguistics

According to evolutionary psychologist Merlin Donald , a form of cognitive representation that was crucial to the development of the cognitively modern mind, and advanced symbolic abilities such as ...