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Politeness in Language
Daniel van Olmen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-04-27
Politeness in LanguageIntroductionLinguistic politeness can be defined as the ways in which language is employed in conversation to show consideration...
Polysemy
Ingrid Lossius Falkum, Agustin Vicente
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
PolysemyIntroductionA word is said to be polysemous when it is associated with two or several related senses (e.g., a straight line/a washing on a lin...
Possessives, Acquisition of
Elena Babatsouli
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2022-05-26
Acquisition of PossessivesIntroductionThe human capacity for language employs variable structures to denote possession. A single construct may implica...
Pragmatics, Acquisition of
Myrto Grigoroglou, Anna Papafragou
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Acquisition of PragmaticsIntroductionHow do children learn to bridge the gap between the literal, semantic meaning of words and the intended, pragmati...
Pragmatics, Computational
Harry Bunt
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-07-29
Computational PragmaticsIntroductionPragmatics as a branch of linguistics can be characterized as the study of the relations between linguistic proper...
Pragmatics, Experimental
Jacopo Romoli
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-03-27
Experimental PragmaticsIntroductionAn important distinction in the investigation of meaning is that between semantics and pragmatics. One way to chara...
Pragmatics, Game Theory in
Thomas Brochhagen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Game Theory in PragmaticsIntroductionGame theoretic approaches to pragmatics characterize pragmatic inference as a product of interlocutors’ reasoning...
Pragmatics, Second Language
Soo Jung Youn
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Second Language PragmaticsIntroductionThe field of second language (L2) pragmatics surveys a range of research issues on how L2 learners learn to use ...
Prague Linguistic Circle, The
Giorgio Graffi
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2019-09-25
The Prague Linguistic CircleIntroductionThe Prague linguistic circle was founded in 1926 by Vilém Mathesius (b. 1882–d. 1945), professor of Anglistics...
Presupposition
Yasutada Sudo
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Presupposition Introduction Presupposition, broadly conceived, is a type of inference associated with utterances of natural-language sentences...
Pronouns
Elly van Gelderen
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2016-11-28
PronounsIntroductionThe word “pronoun” can refer to many things; its name suggests that it stands for or refers to another noun. Personal, reflexive, ...
Psycholinguistics
Eva M. Fernández
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Psycholinguistics Introduction Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental processes and representations that support language acquisition an...
Quechuan and Aymaran Languages
Willem F. H. Adelaar
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-07-30
Quechuan and Aymaran Languages Introduction The Quechuan and Aymaran language groups comprise most of the surviving native languages of the Mi...
Questions
Jonathan Ginzburg
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-07-26
QuestionsIntroductionThis bibliographical survey concentrates primarily on semantic and pragmatic aspects of interrogatives; a few references are prov...
Reading, Second-Language
Elizabeth B. Bernhardt
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-03-24
Second-Language ReadingIntroductionThe field of second-language reading holds important connections to both reading and literacy scholarship focused o...
Reciprocals
Ekkehard König
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2017-09-27
ReciprocalsIntroductionThe notion of reciprocity (“mutuality”) and its syntactic encoding by reciprocal constructions, marked by each . . . other or o...
Reduplication
Suzanne Urbanczyk
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2011-10-28
Reduplication Introduction Reduplication is a word-formation process in which meaning is expressed by repeating all or part of a word. The stud...
Reflexives and Reflexivity
Dana Cohen, Anne Zribi-Hertz
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2014-01-13
Reflexives and Reflexivity Introduction The term reflexive is applied by traditional grammarians to an event or situation that “reflects” (“re...
Register and Register Variation
Amanda Black, Tülay Dixon, Larissa Goulart, Stacey Wizner
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2021-05-26
Register and Register VariationIntroductionRegister research has been approached from differing theoretical and methodological approaches, resulting i...
Relevance Theory
Nicholas Allott
Subject: Linguistics »
Date Added: 2020-01-15
Relevance TheoryIntroductionRelevance theory attempts to provide a psychologically realistic, explicit account of communication. It makes foundational...
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