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Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics - Developers

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Term used by K.Bühler to designate the way in which inherently context-free<br />

utterances are ‘affixed to the things’ they name, e.g. trademarks on goods, book titles,<br />

texts on monuments, <strong>and</strong> signposts.<br />

axiomatics <strong>of</strong> <strong>linguistics</strong><br />

References<br />

sympractical field <strong>of</strong> <strong>language</strong> [Grk syn-<br />

‘with,’ ‘action’]<br />

Term coined by K.Bühler, inspired by Gestalt psychology, to designate the situative<br />

context <strong>of</strong> utterances. The sympractical field <strong>of</strong> <strong>language</strong> comes especially into effect in<br />

the interpretation <strong>of</strong> isolated utterances. When such utterances occur with little or no<br />

context, they are, according to Bühler, used empractically ( empractical use <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>language</strong>).<br />

axiomatics <strong>of</strong> <strong>linguistics</strong><br />

References<br />

synaeresis<br />

Contraction <strong>of</strong> two vowels from originally different syllables from between which a<br />

consonantal element has been dropped due to stress 2 on the root syllable, e.g. Lat.<br />

vidēre> Span. ver ‘see.’ The opposite process is called diaeresis.<br />

<strong>language</strong> change<br />

A-Z 1159<br />

References

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