Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

A form of body-based representation proposed by Jordan Zlatev which builds on the notion of mimesis and which is hypothesized to ground linguistic meaning. The mimetic schema is also claimed to be ...

mirror network

Language; Linguistics

A type of integration network in which all the mental spaces in the network share a common frame, including the blended space. An example of a mirror network is the boat race blend discussed by ...

mode

Language; Linguistics

One of the four schematic categories in the perspectival system. This category relates to whether a perspective point is in motion or not. This interacts with distance, where ‘distal’ tends to ...

modular approach

Language; Linguistics

An approach informed by the modular theory of mind. This theory, associated in particular with formal linguistics, is also explored in other areas of cognitive science such as philosophy and ...

monosemy

Language; Linguistics

Associated with work in lexical semantics from the perspective of formal linguistics. While formal lexical semanticists have long recognized the existence of polysemy, it has generally been viewed as ...

motivation

Language; Linguistics

Relates to relationships between constructions in construction grammar (2). Specifically, motivation concerns the degree to which the properties of a given construction (1) are predictable with ...

moving ego model

Language; Linguistics

An ego-based cognitive model for time. In this cognitive model, time is a landscape over which the ego moves, and is understood by virtue of the motion of the ego across this landscape, towards ...