Semantics

linguistic theory of semantic description

Explication () is the process of drawing out the meaning of something that is not clearly defined, so as to make explicit what is currently left implicit. In other words, "to explicate a concept is, roughly, to replace it with a similar but more theoretically useful concept". The term explication is used in both analytic philosophy and literary criticism. German philosopher Rudolf Carnap was the first to coin the term in an analytic philosophical approach in his book Logical Foundations of Probability, while the term is supplanted with Gustave Lanson's idea of Explication de Texte when referri

analysis of words through structured sets of semantic features (present,absent,indifferent with reference to feature);departs from the principle of compositionality;a method typical of structural semantics (analyzes the structure of a word's meaning)

Invective (from Middle English invectif, or Old French and Late Latin invectus) is abusive, or insulting language used to express blame or censure; or, a form of rude expression or discourse intended to offend or hurt; vituperation, or deeply seated ill will, vitriol. The Latin adjective invectivus means 'scolding.'

linguistic phenomenon in which anaphoric elements such as pronouns are grammatically associated with their antecedents

In linguistics, mirativity, initially proposed by Scott DeLancey, is a grammatical category in a language, independent of evidentiality, that encodes the speaker's surprise or the unpreparedness of their mind. Grammatical elements that encode the semantic category of mirativity are called miratives (abbreviated ).

phrase

危机/危機; "wēijī", claimed to represent a crisis and an opportunity

academic dispute in American generative linguistics, stemming from a falling-out between Noam Chomsky and some of his early students and colleagues, which took place mostly in the 1960s and 1970s

approach to natural language semantics

A misnomer is a name that is incorrectly or unsuitably applied. Misnomers often arise because something was named long before its correct nature was known, or because an earlier form of something has been replaced by a later form to which the name no longer suitably applies. A misnomer may also be a word that is used incorrectly or misleadingly. The word "misnomer" does not mean "misunderstanding" or "popular misconception", and a number of misnomers remain in common usage — which is to say that a word being a misnomer does not necessarily make usage of the word incorrect.

relationship between an object and a representation of that object

logical contradictions centred on the difference between natural language and logic theory

topic in the field of cognitive linguistics

clause elaborated by a main clause

linguistic process

classical algorithm for word sense disambiguation

in the philosophy of language, a theory of truth holding that truth is a property of sentences

research program in theoretical linguistics

how brains and associative networks search for information

branch of metaphysics

concept in linguistics

psychological concept for when a single idea (an image, memory, or thought) or dream object stands for several associations and ideas

third noun in sequence of a comparable phrase (French) Francois

way in which information is formally packaged within a sentence

syntactic function of words in a sentence

hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their name

English language words

Context-based approach to semantics

Endophora refers to the phenomenon of expressions that derive their reference from something within the surrounding text.

mathematical symbol

linguistic structure that marks a particular kind of relationship between two noun phrases

theory in philosophy of language

term to describe the linguistic context of co-referential terms

aspect of a linguistic unit

study of meaning in natural languages

expressing distinctions between words

concept in pronoun-noun agreement

process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings

linguistic school of thought

the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language

Condition required for a semantic statement to be true

semantic concept about how entities interact with reference to force

subfield of computational linguistics and natural language processing

Influences on the interpretation of conversations

A capitonym is a word that changes its meaning (and sometimes pronunciation) when it is capitalized; the capitalization usually applies due to one form being a proper noun or eponym. It is a portmanteau of the word capital with the suffix -onym. A capitonym is a form of homograph and – when the two forms are pronounced differently – is also a form of heteronym. In situations where both words should be capitalized (such as the beginning of a sentence), there will be nothing to distinguish between them except the context in which they are used.

grammatical construction

family of formalisms in natural language syntax motivated by the principle of compositionality and organized according to the view that syntactic constituents should generally combine as functions or according to a function-argument relationship

modality in linguistics

process of interrelating information from diverse sources

theory in the philosophy of language that a certain part of language (e.g. a term, a complete sentence) can only be understood through its relations to a (previously understood) larger segment of language

Concept in the philosophy of language

Computational application of concept approximation

In pragmatics, exophora is reference to something extratextual, i.e. not in the immediate text, and contrasts with endophora. Exophora can be deictic, in which special words or grammatical markings are used to make reference to something in the context of the utterance or speaker. For example, pronouns are often exophoric, with words such as "this", "that", "here", "there", as in ''that chair over there is John's'' said while indicating the direction of the chair referred to. Given "Did the gardener water those plants?", it is quite possible that "those" refers back to the preceding text, to s