Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

Mental spaces are regions of conceptual space that contain specific kinds of information. They are constructed on the basis of generalized linguistic, pragmatic and cultural strategies for recruiting ...

mental spaces lattice

Language; Linguistics

Once a mental space has been constructed, it is linked to the other mental spaces established during discourse. As discourse proceeds, mental spaces proliferate giving rise to a mental spaces ...

mental spaces theory

Language; Linguistics

A theory of dynamic meaning construction developed in particular by Gilles Fauconnier and extended in the work of Seana Coulson , Barbara Dancygier , Eve Sweetser and others. Mental spaces ...

metaphor from metonymy

Language; Linguistics

One way in which metaphor and metonymy can interact and thus one kind of the more general phenomenon known as metaphtonymy. In this form of interaction, a metaphor is grounded in a metonymic ...

metaphor system

Language; Linguistics

The idea, developed in the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, that metaphorical language appears to relate to an underlying ‘system of thought’. In particular, the conceptual system is held ...

metaphoric blend

Language; Linguistics

A metaphor analyzed from the perspective of blending theory. From this perspective metaphors involve ‘frame-projection asymmetry’: while both input spaces contain a distinct frame, it is only the ...

frame

Language; Linguistics

A schematization of experience (a knowledge structure), which is represented at the conceptual level and held in long-term memory and which relates elements and entities associated with a particular ...