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Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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substantive idioms

Language; Linguistics

Idioms of this kind are ‘lexically filled’, which means that they have fixed lexical items as part of their composition. For example, kick the mop does not have the same communicative impact as ...

One type of scanning. In summary scanning, aspects of a scene are scanned cumulatively and are simultaneously present in the conceptual representation. This gives rise to a gestalt representation of ...

superschemas

Language; Linguistics

Those elements of conceptual structure that are shared both by the primary target concept and the primary source concept in a given primary metaphor.

superschematic rule

Language; Linguistics

The requirement within the framework of primary metaphor theory that what distinguishes metaphor of any sort from metonymy, idioms and other kinds of figurative expression is that the target and ...

superschematic structure

Language; Linguistics

A notion developed within primary metaphor theory. Relates to the observation that highly schematic elements of conceptual structure are shared by the primary target concept and the primary source ...

symbolic assembly

Language; Linguistics

A linguistic unit and the fundamental unit of grammar in Ronald Langacker’s theory of cognitive grammar. The symbolic assembly has two poles: a semantic pole (its meaning) and a phonological pole ...

symbolic thesis

Language; Linguistics

One of the two guiding principles of cognitive approaches to grammar. The symbolic thesis holds that the fundamental unit of grammar is a form meaning pairing, a linguistic unit (called a symbolic ...