TERM
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MEANING
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DESCRIPTION
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NOTION
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An idea, belief
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A general understanding; vague or imperfect conception or idea of something:
e.g. That's his notion, not mine.
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DOMAIN
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a sphere of knowledge
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A domain, in the context of networking, refers to any group of users, workstations, devices, printers, computers and database servers that share different types of data via network resources.
e.g. this problem is outside the domain of medical science
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PHONETICS
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The science and study of speech
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the branch of linguistics that deals with the sounds of speech and their production, combination, description, and representation by written symbols.
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SEMANTICS
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The meaning of a word
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the meaning and interpretation of words, signs, and sentence structure.
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PRAGMATICS
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The study of language
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a branch of linguistics, which is the study of language.
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SYNTAX
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The order of words
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the proper order of words in a phrase or sentence.
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COGNITIVE
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relating to cognition
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relating to the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things
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JARGON
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any talk or writing that one does not understand.
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the language, especially the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group
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SLANG
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very informal words used by a group of people
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Slang consists of words, expressions, and meanings that are informal and are used by people who know each other very well or who have the same interests.
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CONTRASTIVE
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forming or consisting of a contrast
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studying or exhibiting the congruences and differences between two languages or dialects without reference to their origins
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CLIPPING
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something cut out or off
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something that is clipped off or out of something else
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CONVERSION
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the act of converting
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the act of changing from one form or use to another
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PIDGIN
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a simple form of a language
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a simplified speech used for communication between people with different languages
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CREOLE
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relating to Creoles or their language
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a language that has evolved from a pidgin but serves as the native language of a speech community
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MIXED LANGUAGE
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Language that are mixed
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any language containing items of vocabulary or other linguistic characteristics borrowed from two or more existing languages
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PARALANGUAGE
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nonverbal communication
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optional vocal effects (such as tone of voice) that accompany or modify the phonemes of an utterance and that may communicate meaning
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THESAURUS
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a book of words or of information
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a list of subject headings or descriptors usually with a cross-reference system for use in the organization of a collection of documents for reference and retrieval
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SEMEME
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a class of related semes
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the meaning of a morpheme
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SEME
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a linguistic sign
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any of the basic components of the meaning of a morpheme
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RAPPORT
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Friendly relationship
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A relationship characterized by mutual understanding.
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CONCEPT
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Something in the mind
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An abstract idea
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CONCEPTUAL
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Relating to concept
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Something is conceptual that consists of concepts;
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FRAME
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Form & figure
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An event that forms the background for the action of novel or play
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RAPPORT
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Friendly relationship
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A relationship characterized by mutual understanding.
e.g. Lola Uzakova tried to build rapportwith us last term.
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CONCEPT
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Something in the mind
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An abstract idea
e.g. I know the basic concept of philosophy
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CONCEPTUAL
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Relating to concept
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Something is conceptual that consists of concepts;
e.g. You should develop your conceptualthinking.
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FRAME
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Form & figure
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An event that forms the background for the action of novel or play
e.g. they need change the frameof their novel.
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Gestalt
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Borrowed from German Gestalt (“shape, figure, form”). The German term can also apply to a geometric or graphical shape, unlike its usage in English.
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A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)
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Generativism
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Avram Noam Chomsky (born December 7, 1928) is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic and political activist. He is highly credited for the development of Generativism
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Generativism /ˈdʒɛnərətɪvɪzəm/, is a linguistic theory that regards linguistics as the study of a hypothesised innate grammatical structure. It is a biological or biologistic modification of earlier structuralist theories of linguistics, deriving ultimately from glossematic
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Structuralism
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Structuralism first comes to prominence as a specific discourse with the work of a Swiss linguist, Ferdinand de Saussure, who developed a branch of linguistics called "Structural Linguistics."
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The theory that a human language is a self-contained structure related to other elements which make up its existence. Structuralism in Europe developed in the early 20th century, mainly in France and the Russian Empire, in the structural linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure and the subsequent Prague, Moscow, and Copenhagen schools of linguistics. As an intellectual movement, structuralism became the heir to existentialism
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Autograph
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The word autograph comes from Ancient Greek (αὐτός, autós, "self" and γράφω, gráphō, "write"), and can mean more specifically: a manuscript written by the author of its content. In this meaning the term autograph can often be used interchangeably with holograph.
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1.a signature, especially that of a celebrity written as a memento for an admirer.
2.a manuscript or musical score in an author's or musician's own handwriting.
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Lacuna
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Exploring the etymology of lacuna involves taking a plunge into the pit—or maybe a leap into the lacus (that's the Latin word for "lake"). Latin speakers modified lacus into lacuna and used it to mean "pit," "cleft," or "pool." English speakers borrowed the term in the 17th century.
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Definition of lacuna
1 : a blank space or a missing part : gap the evident lacunae in his story— Shirley Hazzard also : deficiency sense 1 despite all these lacunae, those reforms were a vast improvement — New Republic. 2 : a small cavity, pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical structure.
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