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Linguistics
The scientific study of human language.
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integration network
Language; Linguistics
A structure employed in Blending theory in order to model the way in which a blended space is achieved. An integration network consists of mental spaces of three kinds: a generic space, at least two ...
intention-reading ability
Language; Linguistics
According to Michael Tomasello , one of two abilities essential to the uniquely human ability to acquire language. While the pattern-finding ability allows pre-linguistic infants to begin to ...
interpretation
Language; Linguistics
The second of the two constituent processes of fusion (2) in LCCM theory. Interpretation involves activation of part of the cognitive model profile to which each selected lexical concept in any ...
invited inferencing theory
Language; Linguistics
A theory of semantic change proposed by Elizabeth Closs Traugott in order to address regularities in semantic change resulting in grammaticalization. This theory is called the Invited Inferencing ...
joint attention frame
Language; Linguistics
The common ground that facilitates understanding of a communicative intention, established as a consequence of a particular goal-directed activity. When an infant and an adult are both looking at and ...
language user
Language; Linguistics
A member of a particular linguistic community who, in speaking (and, indeed, in signing or writing), attempts to achieve a particular interactional goal or set of goals using particular linguistic ...
