For example, in:
The news that he had got married surprised his friends.empathysentence (2) is embedded in sentence (1) and is therefore an embedded
sentence.embodiment n
in cognitive linguistics, the idea that aspects of cognition including
language structure and language processing cannot be fully understood
without referring to aspects of the systems they are embedded in, both the
biology of the organism, including its brain, and the physical and social
context.
emergentism n
the view that higher forms of cognition emerge from the interaction
between simpler forms of cognition and the architecture of the human
brain. For example, in language acquisition, it has been proposed that
categories such as the parts of speechare not innate but emerge as a result
of the processing of inputby the perceptual systems.
see also connectionism
emic approach n
related to the linguistic term phonemic, an emic approach is one that
attempts to describe phenomena from an insider’s perspective, for example,
in terms of categories that are meaningful to speakers of a particular
language or members of a particular culture. This can be contrasted with an
etic approach(related to the linguistic term phonetics), which takes an
outsider’s approach, attempting to describe the behavior in objective and
culturally neutral terms.
emotive meaning n
another term for connotation
empathy nempathize v
the quality of being able to imagine and share the thoughts, feelings,
and point of view of other people. Empathy is thought to contribute to the
attitudes we have towards a person or group with a different language and
culture from our own, and it may contribute to the degree of success with
which a person learns another language.