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  2. Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics ...

  3. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind. Context is "a frame that surrounds the event and provides resources for its appropriate interpretation".

  4. Linguistic performance - Wikipedia

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    [15] de Saussure describes two components of language: langue and parole. Langue consists of the structural relations that define a language, which includes grammar, syntax and phonology. Parole is the physical manifestation of signs; in particular the concrete manifestation of langue as speech or writing.

  5. Linguistic competence - Wikipedia

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    It is distinguished from linguistic performance, which includes all other factors that allow one to use one's language in practice. In approaches to linguistics which adopt this distinction, competence would normally be considered responsible for the fact that "I like ice cream" is a possible sentence of English , the particular proposition ...

  6. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    The six factors of an effective verbal communication. To each one corresponds a communication function (not displayed in this picture). [1] Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor.

  7. Meaning (non-linguistic) - Wikipedia

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    Non-linguistic (or pre-linguistic) meaning is a type of meaning not mediated or perceived through linguistic signs.. In linguistics, the concept is used in discussions.It is whether about such meaning is different from meaning expressed through language (i.e. semantics), It is also Interesting, should play a role in linguistic theory, or to which extent thought and conceptualization is ...

  8. Portal:Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics is the scientific study of language.The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages), phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language, and analogous systems of sign languages), and pragmatics (how the ...

  9. Outline of linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic anthropology – study of how language influences social life; Psycholinguistics – is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. Cognitive linguistics – an approach which seeks to ground grammar in general cognition