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taboo language n
words or expressions, usually of a negative nature, that are considered
offensive or embarrassing and that are discouraged in pubic usage. For
example, swear words.
tacit knowledge n
alsoimplicit knowledge
knowledge which people possess but which they may not be aware of and
which they may not be able to describe or verbalize, such as the ability to
recognize a grammatical from an un-grammatical sentence or the ability to
recognize someone’s face. Tacit knowledge is often learned from experience.
Turning tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge is known as codification
or articulation. Tacit knowledge may be embedded in a community of
practice, such as knowledge of a school culture.
tag n
a word, phrase, or clause added to a sentence in order to give emphasis or
to form a question.
For example:
They’re lovely and juicy, these oranges.
Jill’s coming tomorrow, isn’t she?
The latter is called a tag question.
tagging n
the process of annotating the words in a linguistic corpus (see corpus) by
adding information such as part of speech, syntactic information, semantic
information, or prosodic information for spoken corpora. Specialized pro-
grams are available to perform some of these annotations.
tagmeme n, adj
(in tagmemics) the basic unit of grammatical analysis. A tagmeme is a unit
in which there is a relationship between the grammatical function, for
instance the function of subject, object^1 or predicate, and a class of
fillers.
For example, in the sentence:
The baby bit Anthea.
the subject tagmeme is filled by the noun phrase^1 the baby, the predicate
tagmeme is filled by the transitive verbbite in its past tense form bit, and
the object tagmeme is filled by the proper noun Anthea.