Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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Linguistics

In blending theory, a kind of compression in which a vital relation holding between input spaces (an outer-space relation ) gives rise to reduced complexity in the blended space, thereby giving rise ...

target domain

Language; Linguistics

In conceptual metaphor theory the target domain is the domain (2) being structured by virtue of metaphor. This is achieved due to cross-domain mappings projecting structure from the source domain ...

target domain override

Language; Linguistics

A constraint on the Invariance Principle. Serves to ensure that a metaphoric entailment that is incompatible with the target domain will fail to map. That is, the target domain can override a ...

temporal compression

Language; Linguistics

The phenomenologically real experience in which time ‘feels’ as if it is proceeding ‘more slowly’ than usual and is most often associated with our experience of routine behaviors which we carry out ...

temporal relations

Language; Linguistics

A sub-category of the larger category relational predication. Temporal relations are processes which are encoded by verbs and which are accessed via sequential scanning. Temporal relations can be ...

temporal sequence model

Language; Linguistics

The term given to the timebased cognitive model for time in English by Vyvyan Evans. This model relates to the concepts earlier and later. Unlike the moving ego and moving time cognitive models, ...