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The scientific study of human language.

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generic-level metaphor

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by George Lakoff and Mark Turner in their application of conceptual metaphor theory to poetic metaphor. Relates to a relatively schematic or abstract level of metaphoric ...

gestalt

Language; Linguistics

An organized whole or unit. The central notion in the movement known as Gestalt psychology.

Gestalt psychology

Language; Linguistics

A movement in psychology which emerged at the end of the nineteenth century, representing a move away from the atomistic outlook that had been prevalent in psychology, particularly in terms of ...

goals of blending

Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, conceptual integration is held to be motivated by an overarching goal and a number of notable sub-goals. The overarching goal and primary motivation for the process of conceptual ...

goodness-of-example ratings

Language; Linguistics

An experimental means, devised by Eleanor Rosch in the early 1970s, to investigate the prototype structure of categories. Rosch conducted a series of experiments in which subjects were asked to ...

governing principles

Language; Linguistics

In blending theory, the principles that have been proposed in order to constrain the process of conceptual integration or blending. These principles operate in a way that facilitates the goals of ...

graded grammaticality

Language; Linguistics

A property associated with the utterance (an actual instance of language use). Concerns the observation that utterances occur spontaneously and often exhibit degrees of grammatical well-formedness. ...

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