elicitation methods. Linguistic description, as used in academic and professional linguistics, is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, which...

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning)...

Description is any type of communication that aims to make vivid a place, object, person, group, or other physical entity. It is one of four rhetorical...

judgment). The basis of linguistic research is text (corpus) analysis and field study, both of which are descriptive activities. Description may also include...

various frameworks of linguistic theory which include a general theory of language and a general theory of linguistic description. Current humanistic approaches...

the bedroom. M. A. K. Halliday and R. Hasan interpret register as "the linguistic features which are typically associated with a configuration of situational...

Linguistic relativity asserts that language influences worldview or cognition. One form of linguistic relativity, linguistic determinism, regards peoples'...

Linguistic categories include Lexical category, a part of speech such as noun, preposition, etc. Syntactic category, a similar concept which can also include...

JSTOR 416548. Widawski, Maciej (2019). African American slang: a linguistic description. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-42440-1. OCLC 1090422253...

speaking than others. Thus, it is within communities of practice that linguistic influence may spread within and among speech communities." The words dialect...

Linguistic profiling is the practice of identifying the social characteristics of an individual based on auditory cues, in particular dialect and accent...

negatively when they are described using behaviours because this linguistic description promotes deeper and more systematic processing which highlights...

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy that first appeared in Richard...

dialects), South Picene may represent a third branch of Sabellic. The whole linguistic Sabellic area, however, might be considered a dialect continuum. Paucity...

Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such...

basic concepts that is generally used in grammatical description of languages, and in linguistic typology. It is not always considered to be a theory...

focused on linguistics. Linguistic themes include the following: Grammatical description, Typological classification and Linguistic relativity The second...

Rhoides. The Arabist William Marçais used the term in 1930 to describe the linguistic situation in Arabic-speaking countries. The sociolinguist Charles A. Ferguson...

sociolinguistics is closely related to and can partly overlap with pragmatics, linguistic anthropology, and sociology of language, the latter focusing on the effect...

addition to dialects and languages, prestige is also applied to smaller linguistic features, such as the pronunciation or usage of words or grammatical constructs...

Linguistic island may refer to: Language island (language enclave), an area Island (linguistics) (syntactic island), a construction This disambiguation...

Linguistic insecurity comprises feelings of anxiety, self-consciousness, or lack of confidence in the mind of speakers surrounding their use of language...

et al. (Eds.), Papers from the Parasession on Functionalism, Chicago Linguistic Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, pp. 63–111. Sarah Bunin...

anti-languages do not have complete lexicons, cannot be observed in use for linguistic description, and therefore cannot be studied in the same way a language spoken...

Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School Czech studies Functional generative description Markedness Moscow linguistic circle OPOJAZ Russian formalism Topic and comment Czech:...

cross-linguistically viable notions or types that provide a framework for the description and comparison of languages. The main subfields of linguistic typology...

them, especially in cultural psychology and linguistic anthropology. One of the earliest linguistic descriptions directing positive attention towards Whorf's...

In the social sciences and related fields, a thick description is a description of human social action that describes not just physical behaviors, but...

spoken in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. Asturian is part of a wider linguistic group, the Asturleonese languages. The number of speakers is estimated...

of Phrase Structure Description", he claims to show that both these models are inadequate for the purpose of linguistic description. As a solution, he...