Home > Industry/Domain > Language > Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

simple temporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of temporal relations. Simple temporal relations like complex temporal relations involve a process, and hence a temporal relation, because they construe scenes that hold over a given ...

simplex

Language; Linguistics

Refers to a symbolic assembly which does not contain smaller symbolic units as sub-parts. For example, a simplex symbolic unit such as a morpheme may have a complex semantic or phonological ...

simplex network

Language; Linguistics

The simplest kind of integration network. A simplex network involves two input spaces, one that contains a frame with roles and another that contains values. What makes this an integration network is ...

simulation

Language; Linguistics

The human ability to mentally activate or rehearse perceptual images such as particular sensations or experiences in the absence of the external perceptual stimulus which gives rise to the images. ...

single-scope network

Language; Linguistics

A type of integration network. In the single scope network both input spaces contain a frame but each is distinct. Furthermore, only one of the input frames structures the blend. Consider the ...

situated embodiment

Language; Linguistics

A view of embodied cognition associated with the work of Jordan Zlatev . Relates to the idea that embodiment, as it emerges in semantic structure in language, is embedded or ‘situated’ within ...

social stereotypes

Language; Linguistics

A kind of metonymic ICM. Social stereotype ICMs are ICMs which emerge from public discussion. For instance, the stereotypical bachelor in our culture is a womanizer who lacks domestic ...

Featured blossaries

Math

Category: Education   1 20 Terms

Andy Warhol

Category: Arts   2 6 Terms