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  2. Language of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The language of mathematics or mathematical language is an extension of the natural language (for example English) that is used in mathematics and in science for expressing results (scientific laws, theorems, proofs, logical deductions, etc.) with concision, precision and unambiguity.

  3. Pragmatics - Wikipedia

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    Pragmatics was a reaction to structuralist linguistics as outlined by Ferdinand de Saussure.In many cases, it expanded upon his idea that language has an analyzable structure, composed of parts that can be defined in relation to others.

  4. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Verbal context influences the way an expression is understood; hence the norm of not citing people out of context. Since much contemporary linguistics takes texts, discourses, or conversations as the object of analysis, the modern study of verbal context takes place in terms of the analysis of discourse structures and their mutual relationships ...

  5. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    Also much in general-language use among mathematicians: "Of course, this problem can be arbitrarily complicated". eventually In the context of limits, this is shorthand meaning for sufficiently large arguments; the relevant argument(s) are implicit in the context.

  6. Linguistic competence - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic competence is commonly used and discussed in many language acquisition studies. Some of the more common ones are in the language acquisition of children, aphasics and multilinguals. Child language

  7. Language acquisition - Wikipedia

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    Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language. In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate. Language acquisition involves structures, rules, and representation.

  8. Situated learning - Wikipedia

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    Context: Context provides a framework for the usage of the product or the result at the right time, place, and situation in the social, psychological and material environment. Context creates a platform to examine the learning experiences. Community: Community helps the learner to create, interpret, reflect and form meanings. It provides ...

  9. Bootstrapping (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Semantic bootstrapping is a linguistic theory of language acquisition which proposes that children can acquire the syntax of a language by first learning and recognizing semantic elements and building upon, or bootstrapping from, that knowledge. [8] According to Pinker, [8] semantic bootstrapping requires two critical assumptions to hold true: