antecedent n
see anaphora
anthropological linguistics n
a branch of linguistics which studies the relationship between language
and culture in a community, e.g. its traditions, beliefs, and family structure.
For example, anthropological linguists have studied the ways in which
relationships within the family are expressed in different cultures (kinship
terminology), and they have studied how people communicate with one
another at certain social and cultural events, e.g. ceremonies, rituals, and
meetings, and then related this to the overall structure of the particular
community.
Some areas of anthropological linguistics are closely related to areas of
sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication.
anticipation error n
see speech errors
anticipatory coarticulation n
see assimilation
anticipatory structure n
a structure that refers forward to information contained later in a sentence.
It surprised meto learn that she was only 21.
It’s not until next weekthat we will be able to meet.
anticipatory subject n
see extraposition
anti-cognitive theory n
see cognitive theory
anti-essentialism n
see essentialism
antonym nantonymy n
a word which is opposite in meaning to another word. For example, in
English dead and alive, and big and small are antonyms.
A distinction is sometimes made between pairs like dead and alive, and
pairs like big and small, according to whether or not the words are gradable
(see gradable).
antonym