Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

A unit of spatial experience as encoded in language. Spatial scenes are configured according to four parameters: a figure, also known as the trajector ; a reference object, also known as the landmark ...

specific-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 specific or fine-grained level of metaphoric ...

strength

Language; Linguistics

One of the factors which governs the attentional system in the conceptual structuring system. Relates to the relative prominence of referents: whether they are either backgrounded or foregrounded. ...

subjective construal

Language; Linguistics

A form of construal in which there is implicit dependence on the ground, and thus the context of the utterance, including participants, time of the speech event and so on, is not explicitly ...

subjective experience

Language; Linguistics

Experience of this kind is subjective or internal in nature and includes emotions, consciousness and experiences of time such as awareness of duration (including protracted duration and temporal ...

sub-part links

Language; Linguistics

One of a number of inheritance links between constructions posited in construction grammar (2). Involves a type of inheritance (2) in which one construction is a proper sub-part of another ...

sub-sense

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by Alan Cruse . A distinct word meaning that appears to be motivated by the specific situational context in which the word (and the utterance in which the word is embedded) occurs. ...