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- IndexAT-SEMIO-0001 · Semiotik/Zeichen
A sign connected with its object through a factual, spatial, temporal, or causal relation.
- AnadiplosisAT-RHE-W0003 · Rhetorik/Stilistik
The repetition of the final word or phrase of one unit at the beginning of the next.
- Narrative PerspectiveAT-088-020 · Poetik/Narration
The organized position from which a narrative provides access to knowledge, perception, and evaluation.
- BlendAT-MOR-0003 · Wortgestalt/Wortbildung/Morphologie
A word formed by merging material and meaning from two expressions.
- ParadoxAT-LOG-0001 · Argumentation/Logik
A statement or pattern that appears plausible and contradictory or counter-intuitive at once.
- IsocolonAT-134-025 · Rhetorik/Stilistik
A sequence of sentence elements of approximately equal length and structure.
Complete alphabetical index
- A fortiori argument
- Abbreviation
- Abduction
- Ablaut
- Abscission
- Absolute frame of reference
- Accent
- Accessibility
- Accessus ad auctores
- Accismus
- Accommodation
- Accumulation
- Accusative alignment
- Achrony
- Acronym
- Acrostic
- Action theory
- Active voice
- Acutezza (pointed ingenuity)
- Acyrologia
- Ad hoc formation
- Ad hominem argument
- Adaptation
- Adianoeta
- Adjacency pair
- Administrative language
- Adulation
- Adynaton
- Aenos
- Aesthetic illusion
- Aetiologia
- Affect
- Affective vocalisation
- Affix
- Affricate
- Aganactesis
- Agenda-setting
- Agent
- Agglutination
- Agnominatio
- Agreed or prescribed institutional wording
- Aischrology
- Ajami script
- Aktionsart
- Alienability
- Allegory
- Alliteration
- Alloiosis
- Allomorph
- Allomorphy
- Allophone
- Allophony
- Allusion
- Alphabetic writing
- Amae
- Ambigram
- Ambiguity
- Ambiguous discourse (amphilogy)
- Ambivalence
- Amphiboly
- Amphidiorthosis
- Amphigurie
- Amplification
- Anacephalaeosis
- Anachoresis
- Anacoenosis
- Anacoenosis
- Anacoluthon
- Anadiplosis
- Anagnorisis
- Anagogy: reading towards ultimate fulfilment
- Anagram
- Analepsis
- Analepsis
- Analogical levelling
- Analogy
- Anamnesis
- Anantapodoton
- Anaphora
- Anaphora (grammatical reference)
- Anapodoton
- Anastrophe
- Anecdote
- Anesis
- Antanagoge
- Antanaklasis
- Antapodosis
- Antenantiosis
- Anthimeria
- Anthropomorphism
- Anti-language
- Anti-personification / antiprosopopoeia
- Anticategoria
- Anticipation
- Anticlimax
- Antilogy
- Antimetabole
- Antimetathesis
- Antinomy
- Antipassive
- Antiphrase
- Antiphrasis
- Antiptosis
- Antirrhesis
- Antistasis
- Antistrephon
- Antithesis
- Antonomasia
- Antonomasia
- Antonymy
- Apelasis
- Apheleia: crafted plainness
- Apheresis
- Aphorism
- Apocope
- Apocrisis
- Apodeixis
- Apodioxis
- Apokoinou
- Apokoinu
- Apophasis
- Apophony
- Apophthegm
- Apoplanesis
- Aporia
- Aposiopesis
- Apostrophe
- Appeal
- Appeal to popularity (argumentum ad populum)
- Applicative construction
- Apposition
- Arbitrariness
- Archaism
- Archiphoneme
- Argot
- Argument
- Argument a contrario
- Argument from essence
- Argument from ignorance
- Argument structure
- Argumentatio
- Argumentation
- Argumentative dissociation
- Argumentum ad baculum
- Aspiration
- Assimilation
- Associative plural
- Assonance
- Asteismus
- Asyndeton
- Attention
- Attitudinal shading
- Audience
- Audience design
- Augmentative
- Augmentative and alternative communication
- Authenticity
- Authorial role
- Authorial we
- Authority
- Autonymy
- Auxesis
- Avoidance
- Baby-talk forms (Ammensprache)
- Back-formation
- Backchannel
- Background and figure in grammatical markedness
- Backronym
- Bahuvrihi
- Barbarism
- Bathos
- Battology
- Bdelygmia
- Benediction
- Betrayal
- Binomial expression
- Birth metaphors
- Blame
- Blend
- Blessing
- Blocking
- Body
- Body language
- Bomolochie
- Bomphiologia
- Bon mot
- Bond and chain metaphors
- Book and reading metaphors
- Borrowing
- Boundary metaphors
- Boustrophedon
- Brachiologia
- Brachylogy
- Brand name
- Breaking the illusion
- Buehler's organon model
- Bullying
- Burden of proof and justification
- Bureaucratic language
- Cacosyntheton
- Cacozelia
- Call-and-response
- Calque
- Canon and canon formation
- Captatio benevolentiae
- Case
- Casuistry: reasoning through cases
- Catabasis
- Catachresis
- Catacosmesis
- Cataphora
- Cataplexis
- Categorisation
- Category
- Category error
- Causality
- Causative formation
- Censorship
- Cento
- Chance-based writing
- Chancery language
- Characterisation
- Charientism
- Chiasmus
- Child-directed speech
- Chleuasmos
- Chorographia
- Chreia
- Chronographia
- Chronotopos
- Cipher script
- Circumfix
- Circumlocution
- Clarification
- Clause Chaining
- Clear-cut literature
- Cleft sentence
- Cliché
- Climax
- Clitic
- Cliticization
- Co-hyponymy
- Co-occurrence
- Coarticulation
- Code
- Code-mixing
- Code-switching
- Coercion
- Cognition
- Coherence
- Cohesion
- Cohortatio
- Coincidentia oppositorum
- Coined word
- Collective
- Collective formation
- Collective noun
- Collocation
- Colloquial language
- Colon
- Colonial language
- Comics language
- Comitative-instrumental syncretism
- Command-and-control language
- Commiseratio
- Commit
- Committed literature
- Common good
- Common ground
- Common sense
- Commonplace
- Commoratio
- Communicative competence
- Comparison
- Complementarity
- Complex sentence
- Complexity
- Component Analysis
- Compositionality
- Compound
- Compounding
- Comprehensibility
- Concept
- Concept script
- Conceptual blending
- Conceptual integration
- Concessio
- Concessivity
- Conclusion
- Condensation
- Conduplicatio
- Confix
- Conflict
- Conflict and war metaphors
- Congeries
- Conglobatio
- Congruence attraction
- Conjecture in textual criticism
- Connecting element
- Connector
- Connotation
- Consensus
- Consolatio: the practice of consoling
- Consonance
- Consonant cluster
- Constrained writing
- Constructed language
- Context
- Contextualisation
- Contiguity
- Contract and agreement
- Contraposition
- Control construction
- Convention
- Conversation
- Conversation analysis
- Conversation Analysis
- Conversational maxim
- Conversational organisation
- Conversational repair
- Conversational turn
- Converseness
- Conversio
- Conversion
- Coordination
- Copia
- Copula
- Coreference
- Correctio
- Counter-question
- Counterfactuality
- Court and tribunal metaphors
- Creaky voice
- Cree writing
- Creole language
- Critique and criticism
- Cryptography
- Cultural memory
- Culture
- Curse formula
- Cycle
- Cynicism and ancient Cynicism
- Dada
- De-automatization
- Dead language
- Debate about loanwords
- Debuccalization
- Decipherment
- Decision
- Deconstruction
- Deduction
- Deesis
- Defamiliarization
- Defeasible Inference
- Definiteness
- Definition
- Dehortatio
- Deictic origo
- Deictic projection
- Deixis
- Deliberation
- Demonstration
- Demotivated formation
- Denotation
- Dense translation
- Deonymic formation
- Dependency
- Dependency Marker
- Depth metaphors
- Derivation
- Design
- Determinative compound
- Devil's advocate as a testing role
- Diacope
- Diacritic
- Diaeresis
- Diagram
- Dialectic
- Dialogismus
- Dialogue
- Dialysis
- Diaphora
- Diaporesis
- Diary and journal
- Diasyrmus
- Diathesis
- Diatyposis
- Diazeugma
- Dicaeologia
- Dicent
- Didactics and the design of teaching
- Diegesis
- Differential Object Marking
- Diglossia
- Dignity
- Digression
- Dikacity
- Dilemma
- Diminutive formation
- Diphthong
- Direct speech
- Directive
- Dirimens copulatio
- Discourse
- Discourse deixis
- Discourse marker
- Discourse particle
- Discourse world
- Disjunction
- Display type
- Dispositio (rhetorical arrangement)
- Dissimilation
- Dissimilitudo (comparison by difference)
- Dissimulatio
- Distinctio
- Distinctive feature
- Distributed Cognition
- Distributio
- Doctrines of virtue
- Domestication
- Donkey sentence
- Double address
- Doxa
- Dramatic irony
- Dubitatio
- Dubitation
- Dwelling and house metaphors
- Dyadic sign model (Saussure)
- Dysphemism
- Dysprosody
- Easy Language
- Eclecticism
- Ecphonesis
- Écriture automatique / automatic writing
- Effictio
- Eggcorn
- Egocentric speech
- Ekphrasis
- Elenchus
- Elision
- Ellipsis
- Elocutio (rhetorical formulation)
- Emblem and emblematic composition
- Embodiment
- Emergence
- Empathy
- Emphasis
- Enallage
- Enantiosemy
- Enargia
- Encomium
- Endangered languages
- Endocentricity
- Endoxa
- Enemy image
- Energeia
- Enigma
- Enregisterment
- Entertainment
- Entextualisation
- Enthymeme
- Enumeratio
- Epanalepsis
- Epanodos
- Epanorthosis
- Epenthesis
- Ephemeral writing
- Epibole
- Epicheireme: supporting the premises
- Epicrisis
- Epigraphy
- Epipher
- Epiphonem
- Epiphonema
- Epiphrasis
- Epiplexis
- Epiploce
- Epistemic vigilance
- Epistemology
- Epitasis
- Epithet
- Epitimesis
- Epitome: responsible abridgement
- Epitrochasmus
- Epitrope
- Epizeuxis
- Eponym
- Equivalence
- Equivocation
- Ergativity
- Eristic
- Erotema
- Essay and essayistic thinking
- Ethics
- Ethnography of communication
- Ethopoeia
- Ethos
- Etymology
- Eucharistia
- Euche
- Eulogia
- Euphemism
- Euphemism treadmill
- Euphony
- Eutrapelia
- Eutrepismus
- Event script
- Everyday language
- Evidence
- Evidentia
- Evidentiality
- Exaptation
- Excerpting and source notes
- Exclamatio
- Execration
- Exemplum
- Exercitatio (rhetorical practice)
- Exergasia
- Exocentricity
- Exordium
- Expectation
- Expeditio
- Explicature
- Expolitio
- Expression
- Extension
- Extension of meaning
- Externalism
- Extraposition
- Exuscitatio
- Eye communication
- Eye rhyme
- Fable
- Face-to-face communication
- Facework
- Facial expression
- Fallacy
- False dilemma
- False friend
- Family resemblance
- Farewell address
- Feedback signal
- Fiction
- Figure-ground organisation
- Flow metaphors
- Focalization
- Focus
- Focus particle (Gradpartikel)
- Folk etymology
- Food, digestion and taste metaphors
- Footing
- Forecast and prediction
- Foregrounding
- Foreignisation
- Foreshadowing
- Form of address
- Formulaic language
- Fortification
- Four operations of rhetorical change
- Fragment
- Frame
- Frame semantics
- Framing
- Free Indirect Discourse
- Freedom of opinion and expression
- Fricative
- Full reduplication
- Functional change
- Gap
- Gapping
- Garden-path sentence
- Gematria
- Gemination
- Gender
- Genealogy
- General Semantics
- Generation
- Genericity
- Genius
- German cursive
- Gesture
- Gesture
- Gift
- Gigil
- Glossolalia
- Glottalisation
- Gnomic saying
- Gossip
- Gradatio
- Gradation
- Grammatical agreement
- Grammatical aspect
- Grammatical number
- Grammaticalization
- Graphic appearance
- Ground and foundation metaphors
- Grounding
- Habitus
- Haplology
- Harambee
- Hard sign
- Harmony
- Head marking
- Hearing and listening metaphors
- Hendiadyoin
- Hendiadys
- Hermeneutics
- Hermeticism
- Heterogram
- Heterolinguality
- Hiatus
- Historical-realia word
- History of writing
- Holonymy
- Holophrase
- Holorim
- Homeoptoton
- Homography
- Homoioptoton
- Homoioteleuton
- Homonymy
- Homophony
- Honorific
- Horismus
- Humanitas
- Humour
- Hybrid formation
- Hybrid formation
- Hypallage
- Hyperbaton
- Hyperbole
- Hyperonymy
- Hypertext
- Hypertext rhetoric
- Hypocoristic
- Hyponymy
- Hypophora
- Hypotaxis
- Hypothesis
- Hypotyposis
- Hypozeuxis
- Hysteron proteron
- Icon
- Iconicity
- Iconography and iconology
- Identity
- Ideography
- Ideology
- Ideophone
- Idiolect
- Idiomatization
- Ignoscentia: forgiveness and attributed fault
- Illocution
- Image description
- Imagination
- Imitatio auctorum
- Imperative
- Implication
- Implicature
- Implicit knowledge
- Inclusive and exclusive we
- Incoherence
- Incorporation
- Index
- Indexical Order
- Indexicality
- Indignatio (rhetorical arousal of indignation)
- Indirect evidentiality
- Induction
- Indus script
- Inference
- Inferentialism
- Infinitive
- Infix
- Inflection
- Inflective
- Information
- Information structure
- Inner speech
- Innuendo
- Insinuatio (indirect rhetorical opening)
- Inspiration
- Insult
- Integumentum
- Intellectio (rhetorical task assessment)
- Intensification
- Intensive formation
- Intentionality
- Interaction order
- Intercultural communication
- Interdisciplinarity
- Interest
- Interference
- Interfix
- Interjection
- Intermediality
- Interoception
- Interpretant
- Interpretation
- Intertextuality
- Intonation
- Invective
- Invention
- Invocation
- Irony
- Irreversibility
- Island Constraint
- Isocolon
- Isocolon
- Isogram
- Isotopy
- Iteration
- Iterative Narration
- Jargon
- Joint attention
- Journalese
- Judgment
- Junktur
- Justification
- Kairos
- Kakophony
- Kapwa
- Kenning
- Killer language
- Knowledge
- Kuchisabishii
- Labelling
- Laconism
- Language acquisition
- Language change
- Language contact
- Language criticism
- Language culture
- Language death
- Language game
- Language ideology
- Language maintenance
- Language myth
- Language of distance
- Language of education
- Language of flowers
- Language of immediacy
- Language of National Socialism
- Language of postage stamps
- Language of science
- Language of the ruins
- Language planning
- Language policy
- Language processing
- Language rights
- Language-situated lemma (Sprachlemm)
- Laudation
- Laughter in interaction
- Layout
- Leading question
- Left-hand anticipation
- Legal rhetoric
- Lemma
- Lenition
- Letter puzzle
- Letter symbolism
- Lexeme
- Lexical diffusion
- Lexical gap
- Lexical inference
- Lexical tone
- Lexicalization
- Lexicography
- Licentia
- Lie
- Light metaphors of understanding
- Linearity
- Lingua franca
- Linguistic landscape
- Linguistic relativity
- Linguistic typology
- Linguistic worldview
- Lipogram
- Literacy
- Literary synaesthesia
- Litotes
- Loaded question
- Loanword
- Loanword formation
- Localisation
- Locutionary act
- Logic
- Logomachy: examining a dispute about words
- Logophoricity
- Love speech and the love letter
- Macaronic language
- Machine metaphors
- Macrologia
- Magic word
- Maieutic method
- Main clause
- Malapropism
- Manipulation
- Markedness
- Martyria
- Mass communication
- Mass noun
- Material and form
- Maxim
- Maya script
- Meaning
- Meaning fusion
- Meaning-based personal-name translation / metonomasia
- Mediation
- Medical communication
- Meiosis
- Melioration
- Memory
- Mempsis
- Merismus
- Meronymy
- Mesodiplosis
- Metabasis
- Metacommunication
- Metafiction
- Metalanguage
- Metalepsis
- Metanarration
- Metaphor
- Metaphorical field
- Metaphors of education and formation
- Metaphors of sleep, dreaming and awakening
- Metaphors of speaking things and data
- Metaplasm
- Metapragmatics
- Metastasis: shifting responsibility
- Metathesis
- Method
- Method of loci
- Metonymic Chain
- Metonymy
- Mimesis
- Minimal pair
- Mirativity
- Mirror metaphors
- Mise en abyme
- Misunderstanding
- Mixed metaphor
- Modality
- Modesty topos
- Modus tollens
- Mondegreen
- Monosemy
- Mood and atmosphere
- Mora
- Morality
- Moribund language
- Morpheme
- Morphological head
- Morphological productivity
- Morphosyntactic alignment
- Mother tongue and first language
- Motif
- Motte-and-Bailey
- Multilingualism
- Multimodal communication
- Multimodality
- Mycterismus
- Myth
- Naming
- Narration
- Narrative acceleration
- Narrative deceleration
- Narrative frame
- Narrative leitmotif
- Narrative level
- Narrative Perspective
- Narrative polyphony
- Narrative theory and narratology
- Narrative time
- Narrator
- Narrowing of meaning
- Nation
- Naturalistic fallacy
- Negation
- Neologism
- Netspeak
- Network metaphors
- Neutralisation
- Newness and novelty
- Newspaper language
- Noema
- Nominal style
- Nominalisation
- Nonce formation
- Nonsense
- Norm
- Noun class
- Noun Class System
- Numeral classifier
- Nunchi
- Oath
- Object (grammar)
- Obscuritas / textual obscurity
- Obsecration
- Obviation
- Occasional formation
- Occupatio
- Official language
- Omotenashi
- Onkos (stylistic amplitude)
- Onomatopoeia
- Ontology
- Opacity
- Optatio
- Orality
- Organism and body metaphors
- Oríkì
- Oulipo
- Overview and bird’s-eye-view metaphors
- Oxymoron
- Paeanism
- Palatalisation
- Palimpsest
- Palindrome
- Palinode
- Pangram
- Paradiastole
- Paradigm
- Paradox
- Paraenesis
- Paralipsis
- Parallelism
- Paralogism
- Paramythia
- Paraphrase
- Parataxis
- Paratext
- Parecbasis
- Parechesis
- Paregmenon
- Parenthesis
- Parenthetical sentence
- Parenthyrsos (misplaced pathos)
- Parody
- Paroemia
- Paromoeosis
- Paronomasia
- Parrhesia
- Parrhesia
- Pars pro toto
- Parsing
- Partisanship: representing a side
- Pasigraphy
- Passive voice
- Path metaphors of thought
- Pathos
- Patient (semantic role)
- Peirastic examination
- Pejoration
- Perception
- Percontatio
- Perculsio / threatening intimidation
- Perfectivity
- Performativity
- Periodic sentence
- Peripeteia
- Periphrasis
- Peristasis
- Perlocution
- Peroration
- Persiflage (banter and mocking stylisation)
- Person
- Person-oriented demonstrative system
- Personification
- Perspective
- Perspectivization
- Petitio principii
- Phatic communication
- Phenomenology
- Philology
- Phonation
- Phoneme
- Phonemic restoration
- Phonestheme
- Phonetics
- Phonotactics
- Photographic rhetoric
- Phraseological unit
- Pidgin
- Pitch-accent system
- Place of articulation
- Plain language
- Planned language
- Plant and growth metaphors
- Platitude
- Plausibility
- Play and games
- Pleonasm
- Ploce
- Plosive
- Plural
- Poetic cipher
- Poeticity
- Poetics
- Politeness
- Politeness strategy
- Political agitation
- Polyptoton
- Polysemy
- Polysyndeton
- Polysynthesis
- Polyvocality
- Populism
- Portmanteau morpheme
- Portmanteau word
- Possession
- Possessive classification
- Postfield (German clause structure)
- Postulate of meaning
- Power
- Power of naming
- Practical wisdom and prudence
- Praeteritio
- Pragmatographia
- Precation
- Preference organization
- Prefield (German clause structure)
- Prefix
- Presupposition
- Priming
- Primordial language
- Principle of charity
- Principle of Politeness
- Probability
- Probrum
- Procatalepsis
- Prodiorthosis
- Proecthesis
- Prolepse
- Prolepsis
- Promise
- Pronoun
- Pronoun avoidance
- Proof and evidence
- Prophetic speech
- Propositio
- Proposition
- Proprioception
- Prosapodosis
- Prose
- Prosody
- Prosopographia
- Prosopopoeia
- Protherapeia
- Prototype semantics
- Protrope
- Provenance
- Proverb
- Pseudo-apokoinu
- Pseudocleft
- Psychagogy
- Psychoanalysis
- Public sphere and publicity
- Pun
- Punchline / pointed ending
- Purity metaphors
- Purpose and purposiveness
- Pysma
- Quaestio
- Qualia
- Question
- Quotation
- Quotation marks
- Raising
- Ratiocinatio
- Rationality
- Re-perspectivization
- Reader guidance
- Reading direction
- Reanalysis
- Reappropriation
- Rebracketing
- Reciprocity
- Rection
- Recursion
- Red herring
- Reditus
- Redundancy
- Reduplication
- Reduplicative formation
- Reference
- Reformulation
- Refrain
- Refrain question
- Refutation
- Regional dialect
- Register
- Register shift
- Rejoinder
- Relation
- Relationship-building
- Relationstechnik: a report for deliberation
- Relative clause
- Remorse, regret and repentance
- Repetition
- Repetition
- Reportative evidentiality
- Representation
- Request
- Resonance
- Responsibility
- Retorsion
- Retraction and denial
- Revitalisation
- Rhema
- Rhetorical anthropology
- Rhetorical decorum
- Rhetorical delivery
- Rhetorical identification
- Rhetorical parabola
- Rhetorical question
- Rhetoricality
- Rhyme
- Rhythm
- Right dislocation
- Right to speak
- Ring composition
- Ritual
- Ritual language
- Rogation
- Romanisation
- Root
- Root-and-Pattern Morphology
- Routine formula
- Sachlichkeit: factuality and matter-of-fact presentation
- Sacred language
- Sandhi
- Sankofa
- Sarcasm
- Satire
- Scalar implicature
- Scalarity
- Scandal and scandalisation
- Scepticism
- Scesis onomaton
- Schematismus
- Schüttelreim
- Schwa
- Scrambling
- Sea and navigation metaphors
- Secret language
- Segmentation
- Selection Restriction
- Self-affection: being moved by one's own presentation
- Self-organisation
- Self-persuasion
- Self-reference
- Self-talk
- Semantic coercion
- Semantic fading
- Semantic field
- Semantic loan
- Semantic loan
- Semantic narrowing
- Semantic niche in word formation
- Semantic Role
- Semantics
- Semiosis
- Semiotics
- Sentence adverb
- Sentence and clause
- Sentence bracket
- Sentence intonation
- Separatio
- Serial verb construction
- Sermocinatio
- Seventy-two languages
- Shared Attention
- Shift in meaning
- Shift of perspective
- Shorthand
- Sign
- Sign language
- Sign-forming process
- Significatio
- Signified
- Signifier
- Silence
- Simile
- Skopos
- Skywriting
- Slant rhyme
- Slip of the tongue
- Slippery slope argument
- Slogan
- Slogan word
- Sociability
- Social deixis
- Social technology
- Sociocultural animation / enabling participation
- Sociolect
- Soft sign
- Solecism
- Sonority
- Sonority hierarchy
- Sorites
- Sound symbolism
- Space
- Speaking anxiety
- Speaking in tongues
- Specialised language
- Speech act
- Speech community
- Speech perception
- Spirantisation
- Split ergativity
- Spoonerism
- Stasis
- Steelmanning
- Steganography
- Stem
- Stigmatising word
- Story time
- Straw man
- Straw man argument
- Stream of consciousness
- Structuralism
- Style
- Subject (grammar)
- Subordinate clause
- Suetterlin script
- Suffix
- Suggestion as communicative influence
- Suppletion
- Suspense
- Suspense sentence
- Sustentatio
- Switch-reference
- Syllable
- Syllable weight
- Syllepse
- Syllepsis
- Syllogism (categorical)
- Symbol
- Symperasma
- Symploce
- Synaeresis
- Synaloepha
- Synantesis (introverted repetition)
- Synathroesmus
- Synchoresis
- Synchysis
- Syncope
- Syncrisis
- Syncrisis
- Synecdoche
- Synesis
- Synoeciosis
- Synonymia
- Synonymia
- Synonymy
- Syntax
- Systems theory
- Systrophe
- Taboo
- Taboo shift
- Tactile writing
- Tail-Head Linkage
- Tapinosis
- Tarab
- Taste and aesthetic judgment
- Tautacism
- Tautogram
- Tautology
- Taxonomy
- Telegraphic style
- Telicity
- Tense
- Testimony
- Text pattern
- Text progression
- Text score
- Text type
- Text world
- Textuality
- Thaumasmus
- The beautiful soul
- The comic
- The courtier
- The fantastic
- The grotesque
- The human condition
- The is–ought gap
- The marvellous
- The sublime
- The ugly
- Theatre and role metaphors
- Theta role
- Thinking for speaking
- Tifinagh script
- Time
- Tironian notes
- Tmesis
- Tolerance
- Tone
- Tone language
- Tongue twister
- Tongue twister (Glossorachie)
- Topic Drop
- Topic projection
- Topicalization
- Topographia
- Topoi
- Topos
- Topothesia
- Toulmin model of argument
- Trace
- Tradition
- Tragedy
- Tragicomedy and the tragicomic
- Transcreation
- Transcription
- Transitivity
- Translation
- Translation norm
- Transliteration
- Travesty
- Triadic sign model (Peirce)
- Tricolon
- Trope
- Troponymy
- Truth
- Tu quoque argument
- Turn-taking
- Turn-Taking
- Two-word stage
- Type shifting
- Typography
- Ubuntu
- Umlaut
- Underdetermination
- Underspecification
- Understatement
- Unintended comic phrasing
- Unreliable narration
- Untranslatability
- Utopia and utopian thinking
- Vagueness
- Valency
- Veil metaphors
- Verb
- Verb-Second Sentence
- Verbal improvisation
- Verbal montage
- Verbless sentence / nominal predication
- Verse line
- Vigesimal numeral system
- Vocabulary spurt
- Voice
- Voice onset
- Voicing
- Volk and the people
- Vowel
- Vowel harmony
- Vulnerability
- Weaving and textile metaphors
- Whakapapa
- Whanaungatanga
- Whole for part
- Winged word
- Woodland Path Effect
- Word
- Word boundary
- Word class
- Word coinage
- Word family
- Word family effect
- Word form
- Word formation
- Word order
- Word recognition
- Word separator
- Word superiority effect
- Word-formation niche (Wortnische)
- Word-image writing
- Wordplay
- Words and things (res–verba)
- Work
- Working memory
- World language
- Writing direction
- Writing system
- Writing to learn / epistemic writing
- Written character
- Writtenness
- Zero morpheme
- Zeugma