Linguistics Linguistics In lexicography, clipping is the word-formation process in which a portion of a longer word is used to produce a clipped word. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clipping (lexicography)"
Clipping may refer to: ...more on Wikipedia about "Clipping (linguistics)"
In semiotics, the concept of a code is of fundamental importance. Saussure (1857-1913) emphasised that signs only acquire meaning and value when they are interpreted in relation to each other. He believed that the relationship between the signifier and the signified was arbitrary. Hence, interpreting signs requires familiarity with the sets of conventions or codes currently in use to communicate meaning. Roman Jakobson (1896-1982) elaborated the idea that the production and interpretation of texts depends on the existence of codes or conventions for communication. Since the meaning of a sign depends on the code within which it is situated, codes provide a framework within which signs make sense (see Semiosis). ...more on Wikipedia about "Code (semiotics)"
Code talkers were Native American soldiers serving in the U.S. forces who transmitted secret messages over radio or telephone using codes based on their native languages. The name refers chiefly to Navajo language speakers in special units in the Pacific Theater of World War II. However, the Choctaw language, Comanche language, and other languages were also used, beginning in World War I. In World War II the U.S. military (particularly the U.S. Marines) used Navajo speakers for the first time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Code talker"
Code-Talker Paradox refers to linguistic issue that brings into question some fundemental ideas of the nature of languages. Basically, how can a language both enable communication and block communication? ...more on Wikipedia about "Code-Talker Paradox"
Codification is the process of standardizing a language that was not previously written. In some countries such codification is done by a body constituted by the state, such as the French Academy. Codification often happens due to new inventions, changes in values or other cultural influences. See also official language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Codification (linguistics)"
In linguistics and cognitive science, cognitive linguistics (CL) refers to the currently dominant school of linguistics that views the important essence of language as innately based in evolutionarily-developed and speciated faculties, and seeks explanations that advance or fit well into the current understandings of the human mind. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cognitive linguistics" Visit again http://www.shortopedia.com
Cognitive semantics is part of the cognitive linguistics movement. Cogitive semantics is typically used as a tool for lexical studies such as those put forth by Leonard Talmy, George Lakoff, Dirk Geeraerts and Bruce Wayne Hawkins. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cognitive semantics"
Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Collocation"
In semiotics, the commutation test is used to identify the value or signficance of any of the signifiers used in the material to be analysed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Commutation test (semiotics)"
In psychometrics, applied linguistics and education, competency evaluation is a means for teachers to determine the ability of their students in other ways besides the standardized test. ...more on Wikipedia about "Competency evaluation"
A compound is a word ( lexeme) that consists of more than one free morpheme. ...more on Wikipedia about "Compound (linguistics)"
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is an approach to language teaching and learning in which computer technology is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial interactive element. ...more on Wikipedia about "Computer-assisted language learning"
An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages. Some are designed for use in human communication (usually to function as international auxiliary languages), but others are created for use in fiction, linguistic experimentation, secrecy ( codes), or for the experience of doing so ( artistic languages, language games). These languages are sometimes associated with constructed worlds. ...more on Wikipedia about "Constructed language"
The term construction grammar (CxG) covers a "family" of theories, or models, of grammar that are based on the idea that the primary unit of grammar is the grammatical construction rather than the atomic syntactic unit and the rule that combines atomic units, and that the grammar of a language is made up of taxonomies of families of constructions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Construction grammar"
The context of an event includes the circumstances and conditions which "surround" it; the context of a word, sentence, or longer utterance or text includes the words that "surround" it. ...more on Wikipedia about "Context"
Corruption or bastardization is a way of referring to certain changes in a language. The most common way that a word can be said to be corrupted is the change of its spelling through errors and gradual changes in comprehension, transcription, and hearing. This is especially common with words borrowed from another language. For example Guangzhou was formerly known as Canton, which is a transliteration of Guangdong following the rules of French sound structures. The terms "corruption" and "bastardization" carry negative connotations, and are rooted in prescriptivist theories of language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Corruption (grammar)"
A counterword is a loosely used word, as opposed to its original meaning. ...more on Wikipedia about "Counterword"
Cratylus (Κρατυλος) is the name of a dialogue by Plato, dating to ca. 360 BC. In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to advise them whether names are "conventional" or "natural", i.e. whether language, and by language, Plato naturally means Ancient Greek, is a system of arbitrary signs, or whether words have some intrinsic relation to the things they signify. It is the earliest text of Classical Greece to deal with matters of etymology and linguistics. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cratylus"
Creative linguistics is the art of designing and changing languages, whether starting from a base in reality or complete fiction. ConLangs (Constructed Languages) are examples of creative linguistics, as are constructed grammars, modifications of existing languages, and even simply adding new words to a language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Creative linguistics"
A creole language, or just creole, is a well-defined and stable language that originated from a non-trivial combination of two or more languages, typically with many distinctive features that are not inherited from either parent. All creole languages evolved from pidgins, usually those that have become the native language of some community. ...more on Wikipedia about "Creole language" Please visit again www.shortopedia.com shortopedia
(Decreolization) Decreolisation is a hypothetical phenomenon whereby over time a creole language reconverges with one of the standard languages from which it originally derived. First proposed by Keith Whinnom at the 1968 Mona conference, the concept has come under fire in recent years from such linguists as Bickerton and Rickford since at its inception it sought to overturn long-held elements of the theory of creole continua. ...more on Wikipedia about "Decreolization"
Demagogy is the set of methods used by demagogues. It is a strategy of obtaining power by appealing to the gut feelings of the public, usually by powerful use of rhetoric and propaganda. ...more on Wikipedia about "Demagogy"
Descriptive linguistics is the work of analyzing and describing how language is actually spoken now (or how it was actually spoken in the past), by any group of people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Descriptive linguistics"
Descriptivist theory of Names is a view of the nature of the meaning and reference of proper names generally attributed to Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell. The theory consists essentially in the idea that the meanings (semantic contents) of names are identical to the descriptions associated with them by speakers, while their referents are determined to be the objects that satisfy these descriptions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Descriptivist theory of names" http://www.shortopedia.com Dreamteam.
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