and different types of elicitation methods. Linguistic description is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, which is found especially in education...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

may differ from each other in their choices of which of the available linguistic features to use, and how often (inter-speaker variation), and the same...

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

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

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

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...

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

architecture. While descriptions may seem like fairly uncontroversial phrases, Russell argued that providing a satisfactory analysis of the linguistic and logical...

natural language or at testing linguistic hypotheses, and historical linguistics relies on grammatical and lexical descriptions of languages to trace their...

borrowing. Borrowing is a metaphorical term that is well established in the linguistic field despite its acknowledged descriptive flaws: nothing is taken away...

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

dimension of SFL. In more technical terms, while many approaches to linguistic description place structure and the syntagmatic axis foremost, SFL adopts the...

language is linguistic distance. For a variety to be considered a dialect, the linguistic distance between the two varieties must be low. Linguistic distance...

detail is called descriptive grammar. This kind of linguistic description contrasts with linguistic prescription, a plan to marginalize some constructions...