• Literal and figurative language is a distinction within some fields of language analysis, in particular stylistics, rhetoric, and semantics. Literal language...
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  • Biblical literalism Titled works: Literal (magazine) Three-issue series The Literals, in Fables comics franchise Literal and figurative language Literal translation...
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  • common property Figurative art, representational artwork Literal and figurative language, a distinction within language analysis Neo-figurative art, an expressionist...
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  • Idiom (redirect from Expression (language))
    Categorized as formulaic language, an idiom's figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. Idioms occur frequently in all languages; in English alone...
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    Computer processing of body language Display rules Facial Action Coding System (FACS) Imitation Literal and figurative language Metaphor Mimoplastic art...
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    Sacred cow (idiom) (category Hinduism and cattle)
    (expression) Iconoclasm Literal and figurative language Malapropism "sacred cow meaning". Theidioms.com. Martin, Gary. "Meaning and origin of the phrase...
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  • of famous linguists - list of linguistic topics - literal and figurative language - logical language machine learning - Marvin Minsky - metaphor - metonymy...
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    cliché or phrasal template. Syllepsis: the use of a word in its figurative and literal sense at the same time or a single word used in relation to two...
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  • users, and recognition of coparticipants. Backchannel (linguistics) Filler (linguistics) High-context and low-context cultures Literal and figurative language...
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  • Connotation (category Meaning (philosophy of language))
    meaning honor the distinction between literal meaning and (this kind of) connotation. See literal and figurative language. Terry Eagleton (1991). Ideology:...
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  • on figurative language typically assumed that comprehending figurative and literal language involved different kinds of processes. The non-compositional...
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  • analysis Discourse analysis Semantic analysis (machine learning) Literal and figurative language Translation Semantic structure analysis Sememe Goddard, Cliff...
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    English-language metaphors Literal and figurative language Metaphor identification procedure Metaphor in philosophy Metonymy Misnomer Origin of language Origin...
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  • respect in which the sign represents its object, e.g. as in literal and figurative language. For example, an icon presents a characteristic or quality...
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    Exegesis (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    criticism Biblical literalism Biblical software Biblical studies Close reading Gloss (annotation) Gymnobiblism Icon Literal and figurative language Narrative criticism...
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    in Russian language means: debauchery, adultery and deviation from the straight path in the literal and figurative sense. Levin, Eve, Sex and Society in...
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  • and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis, Cognitive Linguistics 8-3: 183-206. Gibbs, Raymond. 1994. “Figurative Thought and Figurative Language”...
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    An idiom is a common word or phrase with a figurative, non-literal meaning that is understood culturally and differs from what its composite words' denotations...
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  • which figurative language is processed as fast as literal language. The definition of saliency is included in Rachel Giora's (2002) article "Literal vs....
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  • equate to the dictionary definition of literalism: "adherence to the exact letter or the literal sense", where literal means "in accordance with, involving...
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    programming language is a system of notation for writing computer programs. Programming languages are described in terms of their syntax (form) and semantics...
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  • mean 'allegorical interpretation of scripture' (and also, by the fourth century, 'figurative language' more generally). The Greek word τρόπος had already...
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    Trope (literature) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. Keith and Lundburg describe...
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    a meal. Two sayings with the same literal meaning of Where elephants fight, the grass is trampled or figuratively speaking, when those with power fight...
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  • illustrations with instruction on figurative and literal language based on Amelia Bedelia. Examples of idiomatic language from Amelia Bedelia were also used...
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    there it has preserved the literal Dutch meaning of "railway tracks", while the Javanese word follows Dutch figurative use, and "spoor" (lit. "rail") is...
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  • of embodied experience in thought and language, to looking at people's use and understanding of figurative language (e.g., metaphor, irony, idioms). Raymond...
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    Red herring (category Articles containing Italian-language text)
    connection with Nashe's quote and the figurative meaning of red herring to distract from the intended target, only in the literal sense of a hunting practice...
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  • [ðimotiˈci], lit. 'language of the people') is the standard spoken language of Greece in modern times and, since the resolution of the Greek language question in...
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    continuum from strictly literal and not-quite-literal to figuratively used utterances. Examples for the latter are loose language use (saying "I earn €2000...
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