ATLAS 250 · 1024 Concepts

Concept index

1. Abbreviation
2. Abduction
3. Ablaut
4. Abscission
5. Absolute frame of reference
6. Accent
7. Accessibility
8. Accismus
9. Accommodation
10. Accumulation
11. Achrony
12. Acrostic
13. Acyrologia
14. Ad hoc formation
15. Ad hominem argument
16. Adaptation
17. Adianoeta
18. Adjacency pair
19. Administrative language
20. Adulation
21. Adynaton
22. Aenos
23. Aetiologia
24. Affect
25. Affective vocalisation
26. Affix
27. Affricate
28. Aganactesis
29. Agent
30. Agnominatio
31. Aischrology
32. Ajami script
33. Aktionsart
34. Alienability
35. Allegory
36. Alliteration
37. Alloiosis
38. Allomorph
39. Allomorphy
40. Allophone
41. Allophony
42. Allusion
43. Alphabetic writing
44. Amae
45. Ambigram
46. Ambiguity
47. Amphiboly
48. Amphidiorthosis
49. Amphigurie
50. Amphilogy
51. Amplification
52. Anacephalaeosis
53. Anachoresis
54. Anacoenosis
55. Anacoenosis
56. Anacoluthon
57. Anadiplosis
58. Anagnorisis
59. Anagram
60. Analepsis
61. Analepsis
62. Analogical levelling
63. Analogy
64. Anamnesis
65. Anantapodoton
66. Anaphora
67. Anaphora (grammatical reference)
68. Anapodoton
69. Anastrophe
70. Anecdote
71. Anesis
72. Antanagoge
73. Antanaklasis
74. Antapodosis
75. Antenantiosis
76. Anthimeria
77. Anti-language
78. Anticategoria
79. Anticipation
80. Anticlimax
81. Antilogy
82. Antimetabole
83. Antimetathesis
84. Antipassive
85. Antiphrase
86. Antiphrasis
87. Antiptosis
88. Antirrhesis
89. Antistasis
90. Antistrephon
91. Antithesis
92. Antonomasia
93. Antonomasia
94. Antonymy
95. Apelasis
96. Apheresis
97. Aphorism
98. Apocope
99. Apocrisis
100. Apodeixis
101. Apodioxis
102. Apokoinou
103. Apokoinu
104. Apophasis
105. Apophony
106. Apoplanesis
107. Aporia
108. Aposiopesis
109. Apostrophe
110. Appeal
111. Applicative construction
112. Archaism
113. Archiphoneme
114. Argot
115. Argumentatio
116. Argumentation
117. Argumentum ad baculum
118. Aspiration
119. Assimilation
120. Associative plural
121. Assonance
122. Asteismus
123. Asyndeton
124. Attention
125. Attitudinal shading
126. Audience
127. Audience design
128. Augmentative
129. Augmentative and alternative communication
130. Authorial role
131. Authorial we
132. Authority
133. Autonymy
134. Auxesis
135. Avoidance
136. Back-formation
137. Backchannel
138. Backronym
139. Bahuvrihi
140. Barbarism
141. Bathos
142. Battology
143. Bdelygmia
144. Benediction
145. Binomial expression
146. Blame
147. Blend
148. Blessing
149. Blocking
150. Body
151. Body language
152. Bomolochie
153. Bomphiologia
154. Bon mot
155. Boustrophedon
156. Brachiologia
157. Brachylogy
158. Brand name
159. Buehler's organon model
160. Bureaucratic language
161. Cacosyntheton
162. Cacozelia
163. Calque
164. Captatio benevolentiae
165. Case
166. Catabasis
167. Catachresis
168. Catacosmesis
169. Cataphora
170. Cataplexis
171. Categorisation
172. Category error
173. Causality
174. Causative formation
175. Chancery language
176. Charientism
177. Chiasmus
178. Child-directed speech
179. Chleuasmos
180. Chorographia
181. Chreia
182. Chronographia
183. Chronotopos
184. Cipher script
185. Circumfix
186. Circumlocution
187. Clarification
188. Clause Chaining
189. Clear-cut literature
190. Cleft sentence
191. Cliché
192. Climax
193. Cliticization
194. Cliticon
195. Co-hyponymy
196. Coarticulation
197. Code
198. Code-mixing
199. Code-switching
200. Coercion
201. Coherence
202. Cohesion
203. Cohortatio
204. Coined word
205. Collective
206. Collective formation
207. Collective noun
208. Collocation
209. Colloquial language
210. Colonial language
211. Comics language
212. Comitative-instrumental syncretism
213. Command-and-control language
214. Commiseratio
215. Commit
216. Common ground
217. Common sense
218. Commonplace
219. Commoratio
220. Comparison
221. Component Analysis
222. Compositionality
223. Compound
224. Compounding
225. Comprehensibility
226. Concept
227. Concept script
228. Conceptual blending
229. Conceptual integration
230. Concessio
231. Conclusion
232. Condensation
233. Conduplicatio
234. Confix
235. Congeries
236. Conglobatio
237. Congruence attraction
238. Connecting element
239. Connotation
240. Constructed language
241. Context
242. Contextualisation
243. Control construction
244. Convention
245. Conversation Analysis
246. Conversational maxim
247. Conversational repair
248. Conversational turn
249. Conversio
250. Conversion
251. Correctio
252. Creaky voice
253. Cree writing
254. Creole language
255. Cryptography
256. Cultural memory
257. Curse formula
258. Cycle
259. De-automatization
260. Dead language
261. Debate about loanwords
262. Debuccalization
263. Decipherment
264. Deesis
265. Defamiliarization
266. Defeasible Inference
267. Definition
268. Dehortatio
269. Deictic origo
270. Deictic projection
271. Deixis
272. Deliberation
273. Demotivated formation
274. Denotation
275. Dense translation
276. Deonymic formation
277. Dependency Marker
278. Derivation
279. Diacope
280. Diacritic
281. Diaeresis
282. Diagram
283. Dialogismus
284. Dialysis
285. Diaphora
286. Diaporesis
287. Diasyrmus
288. Diatyposis
289. Diazeugma
290. Dicaeologia
291. Dicent
292. Diegesis
293. Differential Object Marking
294. Diglossia
295. Digression
296. Dikacity
297. Dilemma
298. Diminutive formation
299. Diphthong
300. Dirimens copulatio
301. Discourse deixis
302. Discourse marker
303. Discourse particle
304. Discourse world
305. Disjunction
306. Display type
307. Distinctio
308. Distinctive feature
309. Distributed Cognition
310. Distributio
311. Domestication
312. Donkey sentence
313. Double address
314. Doxa
315. Dramatic irony
316. Dubitatio
317. Dubitation
318. Dyadic sign model (Saussure)
319. Dysphemism
320. Dysprosody
321. Easy Language
322. Ecphonesis
323. Effictio
324. Eggcorn
325. Egocentric speech
326. Ekphrasis
327. Elenchus
328. Elision
329. Ellipsis
330. Embodiment
331. Emergence
332. Empathy
333. Enallage
334. Enantiosemy
335. Enargia
336. Encomium
337. Endangered languages
338. Endoxa
339. Energeia
340. Enigma
341. Enregisterment
342. Entextualisation
343. Enthymeme
344. Epanalepsis
345. Epanodos
346. Epanorthosis
347. Epenthesis
348. Ephemeral writing
349. Epibole
350. Epicrisis
351. Epigraphy
352. Epipher
353. Epiphonem
354. Epiphonema
355. Epiphrasis
356. Epiplexis
357. Epiploce
358. Epistemic vigilance
359. Epistemology
360. Epitasis
361. Epithet
362. Epitimesis
363. Epitrochasmus
364. Epitrope
365. Epizeuxis
366. Eponym
367. Equivalence
368. Equivocation
369. Ergativity
370. Erotema
371. Ethnography of communication
372. Ethopoeia
373. Ethos
374. Eucharistia
375. Euche
376. Eulogia
377. Euphemism
378. Euphemism treadmill
379. Euphony
380. Eutrapelia
381. Eutrepismus
382. Everyday language
383. Evidence
384. Evidentia
385. Evidentiality
386. Exaptation
387. Exclamatio
388. Execration
389. Exemplum
390. Exergasia
391. Exordium
392. Expectation
393. Expeditio
394. Expolitio
395. Extension of meaning
396. Externalism
397. Extraposition
398. Exuscitatio
399. Eye communication
400. Eye rhyme
401. Fable
402. Face-to-face communication
403. Facework
404. Facial expression
405. False dilemma
406. False friend
407. Family resemblance
408. Feedback signal
409. Figure-ground organisation
410. Focalization
411. Focus
412. Folk etymology
413. Footing
414. Foregrounding
415. Foreignisation
416. Foreshadowing
417. Form of address
418. Formulaic language
419. Fortification
420. Fragment
421. Frame
422. Frame semantics
423. Framing
424. Free Indirect Discourse
425. Full reduplication
426. Gap
427. Gapping
428. Garden-path sentence
429. Gemination
430. Genealogy
431. Generation
432. Genericity
433. German cursive
434. Gesture
435. Gesture
436. Gift
437. Gigil
438. Glossolalia
439. Glossomachy
440. Gnomic saying
441. Gradatio
442. Gradation
443. Grammatical agreement
444. Grammatical aspect
445. Grammatical number
446. Grammaticalization
447. Graphic appearance
448. Ground and figure
449. Grounding
450. Haplology
451. Harambee
452. Hard sign
453. Head marking
454. Hendiadyoin
455. Hendiadys
456. Hermeneutics
457. Hermeticism
458. Heterogram
459. Heterolinguality
460. Hiatus
461. History of writing
462. Holonymy
463. Holorim
464. Homeoptoton
465. Homoioptoton
466. Homoioteleuton
467. Homonymy
468. Homophony
469. Honorific
470. Horismus
471. Hybrid formation
472. Hybrid formation
473. Hypallage
474. Hyperbaton
475. Hyperbole
476. Hyperonymy
477. Hypertext
478. Hypertext rhetoric
479. Hypocoristic
480. Hyponymy
481. Hypophora
482. Hypotaxis
483. Hypotyposis
484. Hypozeuxis
485. Hysteron proteron
486. Icon
487. Iconicity
488. Identity
489. Ideography
490. Ideophone
491. Idiolect
492. Idiomatization
493. Illocution
494. Image description
495. Imperative
496. Implicature
497. Implicit knowledge
498. Inclusive and exclusive we
499. Incoherence
500. Incorporation
501. Index
502. Indexical Order
503. Indexicality
504. Indirect evidentiality
505. Induction
506. Indus script
507. Infant-directed speech
508. Inferentialism
509. Infix
510. Inflection
511. Inflective
512. Information structure
513. Inner speech
514. Insult
515. Intensification
516. Intensive formation
517. Intentionality
518. Interaction order
519. Intercultural communication
520. Interfix
521. Interjection
522. Interoception
523. Interpretant
524. Intertextuality
525. Intonation
526. Invention
527. Invocation
528. Irony
529. Irreversibility
530. Island Constraint
531. Isocolon
532. Isocolon
533. Isotopy
534. Iteration
535. Iterative Narration
536. Joint attention
537. Journalese
538. Junktur
539. Justification
540. Kairos
541. Kakophony
542. Kapwa
543. Kenning
544. Killer language
545. Kuchisabishii
546. Labelling
547. Laconism
548. Language acquisition
549. Language change
550. Language contact
551. Language criticism
552. Language culture
553. Language death
554. Language game
555. Language Lemma
556. Language maintenance
557. Language myth
558. Language of distance
559. Language of education
560. Language of flowers
561. Language of immediacy
562. Language of National Socialism
563. Language of postage stamps
564. Language of science
565. Language of the ruins
566. Language planning
567. Language policy
568. Language processing
569. Language rights
570. Laudation
571. Layout
572. Leading question
573. Left-hand anticipation
574. Lemma
575. Lenition
576. Letter puzzle
577. Letter symbolism
578. Lexeme
579. Lexical diffusion
580. Lexical gap
581. Lexical inference
582. Lexical tone
583. Lexicalization
584. Licentia
585. Linearity
586. Lingua franca
587. Linguistic landscape
588. Linguistic relativity
589. Linguistic worldview
590. Lipogram
591. Literacy
592. Literacy and written discourse
593. Literary synaesthesia
594. Litotes
595. Loaded question
596. Loanword
597. Loanword formation
598. Locutionary act
599. Logophoricity
600. Macaronic language
601. Macrologia
602. Magic word
603. Malapropism
604. Markedness
605. Martyria
606. Mass noun
607. Maxim
608. Maya script
609. Meaning fusion
610. Meiosis
611. Melioration
612. Memory
613. Mempsis
614. Merismus
615. Meronymy
616. Mesodiplosis
617. Metabasis
618. Metacommunication
619. Metafiction
620. Metalanguage
621. Metalepsis
622. Metanarration
623. Metaphor
624. Metaphorical field
625. Metaplasm
626. Metapragmatics
627. Metathesis
628. Metonymic Chain
629. Metonymy
630. Mimesis
631. Minimal pair
632. Mirativity
633. Mise en abyme
634. Misunderstanding
635. Mixed metaphor
636. Modality
637. Modus tollens
638. Mondegreen
639. Monosemy
640. Mora
641. Morality
642. Moribund language
643. Morpheme
644. Morphological head
645. Morphosyntactic alignment
646. Motte-and-Bailey
647. Multilingualism
648. Multimodal communication
649. Multimodality
650. Mycterismus
651. Naming
652. Narration
653. Narrative acceleration
654. Narrative deceleration
655. Narrative frame
656. Narrative leitmotif
657. Narrative Perspective
658. Narrative polyphony
659. Narrative time
660. Narrowing of meaning
661. Naturalistic fallacy
662. Neologism
663. Netspeak
664. Newspaper language
665. Noema
666. Nominal style
667. Nominalisation
668. Norm
669. Noun class
670. Noun Class System
671. Numeral classifier
672. Nunchi
673. Obsecration
674. Obviation
675. Occasional formation
676. Occupatio
677. Official language
678. Omotenashi
679. Onomatopoeia
680. Opacity
681. Optatio
682. Orality
683. Oríkì
684. Oulipo
685. Oxymoron
686. Paeanism
687. Palatalisation
688. Palimpsest
689. Palindrome
690. Pangram
691. Paradiastole
692. Paradigm
693. Paradox
694. Paraenesis
695. Paralipsis
696. Parallelism
697. Paralogism
698. Paramythia
699. Parataxis
700. Parecbasis
701. Parechesis
702. Paregmenon
703. Parenthesis
704. Parenthetical sentence
705. Parody
706. Paroemia
707. Paromoeosis
708. Paronomasia
709. Parrhesia
710. Parrhesia
711. Pars pro toto
712. Parsing
713. Pasigraphy
714. Passive voice
715. Pathos
716. Pejoration
717. Percontatio
718. Performativity
719. Periodic sentence
720. Periphrasis
721. Peristasis
722. Perlocution
723. Peroration
724. Person-oriented demonstrative system
725. Personification
726. Perspective
727. Perspectivization
728. Petitio principii
729. Phatic communication
730. Phonation
731. Phoneme
732. Phonemic restoration
733. Phonestheme
734. Phonotactics
735. Phraseological unit
736. Pidgin
737. Pitch-accent system
738. Plain language
739. Planned language
740. Platitude
741. Pleonasm
742. Ploce
743. Plural
744. Poetic cipher
745. Politeness
746. Politeness strategy
747. Polyptoton
748. Polysemy
749. Polysyndeton
750. Polysynthesis
751. Polyvocality
752. Portmanteau morpheme
753. Portmanteau word
754. Possession
755. Possessive classification
756. Postulate of meaning
757. Power
758. Power of naming
759. Praeteritio
760. Pragmatographia
761. Precation
762. Preference organization
763. Presupposition
764. Priming
765. Primordial language
766. Principle of Politeness
767. Probability
768. Probrum
769. Procatalepsis
770. Prodiorthosis
771. Proecthesis
772. Prolepse
773. Prolepsis
774. Pronoun
775. Pronoun avoidance
776. Prosapodosis
777. Prosody
778. Prosopographia
779. Prosopopoeia
780. Protherapeia
781. Prototype semantics
782. Protrope
783. Provenance
784. Proverb
785. Pseudo-apokoinu
786. Pseudocleft
787. Pun
788. Pysma
789. Qualia
790. Question
791. Quotation
792. Quotation marks
793. Raising
794. Ratiocinatio
795. Re-perspectivization
796. Reader guidance
797. Reading direction
798. Reanalysis
799. Rebracketing
800. Reciprocity
801. Rection
802. Reditus
803. Reduplication
804. Reduplicative formation
805. Refrain
806. Refrain question
807. Refutation
808. Register
809. Rejoinder
810. Relation
811. Relationship-building
812. Repetition
813. Repetition
814. Request
815. Resonance
816. Responsibility
817. Retorsion
818. Revitalisation
819. Rhema
820. Rhetorical decorum
821. Rhetorical delivery
822. Rhetorical parabola
823. Rhetorical question
824. Rhyme
825. Rhythm
826. Right dislocation
827. Ring composition
828. Ritual
829. Ritual language
830. Rogation
831. Root-and-Pattern Morphology
832. Routine formula
833. Sacred language
834. Sandhi
835. Sankofa
836. Sarcasm
837. Satire
838. Scalar implicature
839. Scalarity
840. Scesis onomaton
841. Schematismus
842. Schüttelreim
843. Schwa
844. Scrambling
845. Secret language
846. Segmentation
847. Selection Restriction
848. Self-talk
849. Semantic coercion
850. Semantic fading
851. Semantic field
852. Semantic loan
853. Semantic loan
854. Semantic narrowing
855. Semantic niche
856. Semantic Role
857. Semantics
858. Semiosis
859. Sentence bracket
860. Sentence intonation
861. Separatio
862. Serial verb construction
863. Sermocinatio
864. Seventy-two languages
865. Shared Attention
866. Shift in meaning
867. Shift of perspective
868. Shorthand
869. Sign language
870. Sign-forming process
871. Significatio
872. Signified
873. Signifier
874. Silence
875. Simile
876. Skopos
877. Skywriting
878. Slant rhyme
879. Slip of the tongue
880. Slippery slope argument
881. Slogan
882. Slogan word
883. Social deixis
884. Sociolect
885. Soft sign
886. Solecism
887. Sonority
888. Sonority hierarchy
889. Sorites
890. Sound symbolism
891. Space
892. Speaking in tongues
893. Specialised language
894. Speech act
895. Speech community
896. Speech perception
897. Split ergativity
898. Spoonerism
899. Stasis
900. Steelmanning
901. Steganography
902. Stigmatising word
903. Story time
904. Straw man
905. Straw man argument
906. Stream of consciousness
907. Style
908. Suetterlin script
909. Suppletion
910. Suspense
911. Suspense sentence
912. Sustentatio
913. Switch-reference
914. Syllable
915. Syllable weight
916. Syllepse
917. Syllepsis
918. Symbol
919. Symperasma
920. Symploce
921. Synaloepha
922. Synantesis
923. Synathroesmus
924. Synchoresis
925. Synchysis
926. Syncope
927. Syncrisis
928. Syncrisis
929. Synecdoche
930. Synesis
931. Synoeciosis
932. Synonymia
933. Synonymia
934. Synonymy
935. Syntax
936. Systrophe
937. Taboo
938. Taboo shift
939. Tactile writing
940. Tail-Head Linkage
941. Tapinosis
942. Tarab
943. Tautacism
944. Tautogram
945. Tautology
946. Telegraphic style
947. Telicity
948. Testimony
949. Text pattern
950. Text progression
951. Text score
952. Text type
953. Text world
954. Textuality
955. Thaumasmus
956. Theta role
957. Thinking for speaking
958. Tifinagh script
959. Tironian notes
960. Tmesis
961. Tone language
962. Tongue twister
963. Topic Drop
964. Topic projection
965. Topicalization
966. Topographia
967. Topoi
968. Topos
969. Topothesia
970. Trace
971. Transcreation
972. Transcription
973. Translation
974. Transliteration
975. Travesty
976. Triadic sign model (Peirce)
977. Tricolon
978. Trope
979. Troponymy
980. Tu quoque argument
981. Turn-taking
982. Turn-Taking
983. Two-word stage
984. Typography
985. Ubuntu
986. Umlaut
987. Underdetermination
988. Understatement
989. Unintended comic phrasing
990. Unreliable narration
991. Untranslatability
992. Vagueness
993. Valency
994. Verb-Second Sentence
995. Vigesimal numeral system
996. Vocabulary spurt
997. Voice
998. Voice onset
999. Voicing
1000. Vowel harmony
1001. Vulnerability
1002. Whakapapa
1003. Whanaungatanga
1004. Whole for part
1005. Winged word
1006. Woodland Path Effect
1007. Word boundary
1008. Word coinage
1009. Word family
1010. Word family effect
1011. Word formation
1012. Word niche
1013. Word order
1014. Word recognition
1015. Word separator
1016. Word superiority effect
1017. Word-image writing
1018. Wordplay
1019. World language
1020. Writing direction
1021. Writing system
1022. Written character
1023. Zero morpheme
1024. Zeugma