Linguistics

Linguistics

The scientific study of human language.

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font

Language; Linguistics

In online documents the user can choose different fonts for his text documents, there is “Times New Roman”, “Arial”, etc.

In philosophy, ontology is the study of being or existence. It seeks to describe or posit the basic categories and relationships of being or existence to define entities and types of entities within ...

metonymy

Language; Linguistics

In rhetoric, metonymy is the substitution of one word for another with which it is associated. In cognitive linguistics, metonymy refers to the use of a single characteristic to identify a more ...

signs

Language; Linguistics

In semiotics, a sign is generally defined as, "...something that stands for something else, to someone in some capacity. It may be understood as a discrete unit of meaning, whether denotative or ...

grapheme

Language; Linguistics

In typography, a grapheme is the atomic unit in written language. Graphemes include letters, Chinese characters, Japanese characters, numerals, punctuation marks, and other glyphs. In a phonological ...

generalisation

Language; Linguistics

Generalization is a foundational element of logic and human reasoning. It is the essential basis of all valid deductive inference. The concept of generalization has broad application in many related ...