Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

Contributors in Linguistics

Linguistics

The view in conceptual metaphor theory that conceptual metaphors serve to map structure from a source domain to a target domain but not vice versa. For example, while love is conceptualized in terms ...

unification

Language; Linguistics

In primary metaphor theory, this is the process whereby two or more primary metaphors combine so as to give rise to a compound metaphor. For instance, Joseph Grady , the architect of primary ...

usage-based model

Language; Linguistics

A model of language which adopts the usage-based thesis. A salient example of such a model is the theory of cognitive grammar.

usage-based thesis

Language; Linguistics

One of the two guiding principles of cognitive approaches to grammar. The usage-based thesis holds that the mental grammar of the language user (his or her knowledge of language) is formed by the ...

utterance

Language; Linguistics

A situated instance of language use which is culturally and contextually embedded and represents an instance of linguistic behavior on the part of a language user. An utterance has a unit-like status ...

utterance schema

Language; Linguistics

A term coined by the developmental psychologist Michael Tomasello . Relates to an early multi-word utterance in first language acquisition which exhibits functional asymmetry. That is, the ...

Utterance Selection Theory

Language; Linguistics

A usage-based theory of language change developed by William Croft . This theory views language use as the interface that mediates between the conventions of a language (those aspects of use that ...