ATLAS OF LANGUAGE

ATLAS 251 · 1028 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. Maieutic method
  604. Malapropism
  605. Markedness
  606. Martyria
  607. Mass noun
  608. Maxim
  609. Maya script
  610. Meaning fusion
  611. Meiosis
  612. Melioration
  613. Memory
  614. Mempsis
  615. Merismus
  616. Meronymy
  617. Mesodiplosis
  618. Metabasis
  619. Metacommunication
  620. Metafiction
  621. Metalanguage
  622. Metalepsis
  623. Metanarration
  624. Metaphor
  625. Metaphorical field
  626. Metaplasm
  627. Metapragmatics
  628. Metathesis
  629. Metonymic Chain
  630. Metonymy
  631. Mimesis
  632. Minimal pair
  633. Mirativity
  634. Mise en abyme
  635. Misunderstanding
  636. Mixed metaphor
  637. Modality
  638. Modus tollens
  639. Mondegreen
  640. Monosemy
  641. Mora
  642. Morality
  643. Moribund language
  644. Morpheme
  645. Morphological head
  646. Morphosyntactic alignment
  647. Motte-and-Bailey
  648. Multilingualism
  649. Multimodal communication
  650. Multimodality
  651. Mycterismus
  652. Naming
  653. Narration
  654. Narrative acceleration
  655. Narrative deceleration
  656. Narrative frame
  657. Narrative leitmotif
  658. Narrative Perspective
  659. Narrative polyphony
  660. Narrative time
  661. Narrowing of meaning
  662. Naturalistic fallacy
  663. Neologism
  664. Netspeak
  665. Newspaper language
  666. Noema
  667. Nominal style
  668. Nominalisation
  669. Norm
  670. Noun class
  671. Noun Class System
  672. Numeral classifier
  673. Nunchi
  674. Obsecration
  675. Obviation
  676. Occasional formation
  677. Occupatio
  678. Official language
  679. Omotenashi
  680. Onomatopoeia
  681. Opacity
  682. Optatio
  683. Orality
  684. Oríkì
  685. Oulipo
  686. Oxymoron
  687. Paeanism
  688. Palatalisation
  689. Palimpsest
  690. Palindrome
  691. Pangram
  692. Paradiastole
  693. Paradigm
  694. Paradox
  695. Paraenesis
  696. Paralipsis
  697. Parallelism
  698. Paralogism
  699. Paramythia
  700. Parataxis
  701. Parecbasis
  702. Parechesis
  703. Paregmenon
  704. Parenthesis
  705. Parenthetical sentence
  706. Parody
  707. Paroemia
  708. Paromoeosis
  709. Paronomasia
  710. Parrhesia
  711. Parrhesia
  712. Pars pro toto
  713. Parsing
  714. Pasigraphy
  715. Passive voice
  716. Pathos
  717. Pejoration
  718. Percontatio
  719. Performativity
  720. Periodic sentence
  721. Periphrasis
  722. Peristasis
  723. Perlocution
  724. Peroration
  725. Person-oriented demonstrative system
  726. Personification
  727. Perspective
  728. Perspectivization
  729. Petitio principii
  730. Phatic communication
  731. Phonation
  732. Phoneme
  733. Phonemic restoration
  734. Phonestheme
  735. Phonotactics
  736. Phraseological unit
  737. Pidgin
  738. Pitch-accent system
  739. Plain language
  740. Planned language
  741. Platitude
  742. Pleonasm
  743. Ploce
  744. Plural
  745. Poetic cipher
  746. Politeness
  747. Politeness strategy
  748. Polyptoton
  749. Polysemy
  750. Polysyndeton
  751. Polysynthesis
  752. Polyvocality
  753. Portmanteau morpheme
  754. Portmanteau word
  755. Possession
  756. Possessive classification
  757. Postulate of meaning
  758. Power
  759. Power of naming
  760. Praeteritio
  761. Pragmatographia
  762. Precation
  763. Preference organization
  764. Presupposition
  765. Priming
  766. Primordial language
  767. Principle of Politeness
  768. Probability
  769. Probrum
  770. Procatalepsis
  771. Prodiorthosis
  772. Proecthesis
  773. Prolepse
  774. Prolepsis
  775. Pronoun
  776. Pronoun avoidance
  777. Prosapodosis
  778. Prosody
  779. Prosopographia
  780. Prosopopoeia
  781. Protherapeia
  782. Prototype semantics
  783. Protrope
  784. Provenance
  785. Proverb
  786. Pseudo-apokoinu
  787. Pseudocleft
  788. Psychagogy
  789. Pun
  790. Pysma
  791. Qualia
  792. Question
  793. Quotation
  794. Quotation marks
  795. Raising
  796. Ratiocinatio
  797. Re-perspectivization
  798. Reader guidance
  799. Reading direction
  800. Reanalysis
  801. Rebracketing
  802. Reciprocity
  803. Rection
  804. Reditus
  805. Reduplication
  806. Reduplicative formation
  807. Refrain
  808. Refrain question
  809. Refutation
  810. Register
  811. Rejoinder
  812. Relation
  813. Relationship-building
  814. Repetition
  815. Repetition
  816. Request
  817. Resonance
  818. Responsibility
  819. Retorsion
  820. Revitalisation
  821. Rhema
  822. Rhetorical decorum
  823. Rhetorical delivery
  824. Rhetorical parabola
  825. Rhetorical question
  826. Rhetoricality
  827. Rhyme
  828. Rhythm
  829. Right dislocation
  830. Ring composition
  831. Ritual
  832. Ritual language
  833. Rogation
  834. Root-and-Pattern Morphology
  835. Routine formula
  836. Sacred language
  837. Sandhi
  838. Sankofa
  839. Sarcasm
  840. Satire
  841. Scalar implicature
  842. Scalarity
  843. Scesis onomaton
  844. Schematismus
  845. Schüttelreim
  846. Schwa
  847. Scrambling
  848. Secret language
  849. Segmentation
  850. Selection Restriction
  851. Self-talk
  852. Semantic coercion
  853. Semantic fading
  854. Semantic field
  855. Semantic loan
  856. Semantic loan
  857. Semantic narrowing
  858. Semantic niche
  859. Semantic Role
  860. Semantics
  861. Semiosis
  862. Sentence bracket
  863. Sentence intonation
  864. Separatio
  865. Serial verb construction
  866. Sermocinatio
  867. Seventy-two languages
  868. Shared Attention
  869. Shift in meaning
  870. Shift of perspective
  871. Shorthand
  872. Sign language
  873. Sign-forming process
  874. Significatio
  875. Signified
  876. Signifier
  877. Silence
  878. Simile
  879. Skopos
  880. Skywriting
  881. Slant rhyme
  882. Slip of the tongue
  883. Slippery slope argument
  884. Slogan
  885. Slogan word
  886. Social deixis
  887. Sociolect
  888. Soft sign
  889. Solecism
  890. Sonority
  891. Sonority hierarchy
  892. Sorites
  893. Sound symbolism
  894. Space
  895. Speaking in tongues
  896. Specialised language
  897. Speech act
  898. Speech community
  899. Speech perception
  900. Split ergativity
  901. Spoonerism
  902. Stasis
  903. Steelmanning
  904. Steganography
  905. Stigmatising word
  906. Story time
  907. Straw man
  908. Straw man argument
  909. Stream of consciousness
  910. Style
  911. Suetterlin script
  912. Suppletion
  913. Suspense
  914. Suspense sentence
  915. Sustentatio
  916. Switch-reference
  917. Syllable
  918. Syllable weight
  919. Syllepse
  920. Syllepsis
  921. Symbol
  922. Symperasma
  923. Symploce
  924. Synaloepha
  925. Synantesis
  926. Synathroesmus
  927. Synchoresis
  928. Synchysis
  929. Syncope
  930. Syncrisis
  931. Syncrisis
  932. Synecdoche
  933. Synesis
  934. Synoeciosis
  935. Synonymia
  936. Synonymia
  937. Synonymy
  938. Syntax
  939. Systrophe
  940. Taboo
  941. Taboo shift
  942. Tactile writing
  943. Tail-Head Linkage
  944. Tapinosis
  945. Tarab
  946. Tautacism
  947. Tautogram
  948. Tautology
  949. Telegraphic style
  950. Telicity
  951. Testimony
  952. Text pattern
  953. Text progression
  954. Text score
  955. Text type
  956. Text world
  957. Textuality
  958. Thaumasmus
  959. Theta role
  960. Thinking for speaking
  961. Tifinagh script
  962. Tironian notes
  963. Tmesis
  964. Tone language
  965. Tongue twister
  966. Topic Drop
  967. Topic projection
  968. Topicalization
  969. Topographia
  970. Topoi
  971. Topos
  972. Topothesia
  973. Trace
  974. Transcreation
  975. Transcription
  976. Translation
  977. Transliteration
  978. Travesty
  979. Triadic sign model (Peirce)
  980. Tricolon
  981. Trope
  982. Troponymy
  983. Tu quoque argument
  984. Turn-taking
  985. Turn-Taking
  986. Two-word stage
  987. Typography
  988. Ubuntu
  989. Umlaut
  990. Underdetermination
  991. Understatement
  992. Unintended comic phrasing
  993. Unreliable narration
  994. Untranslatability
  995. Vagueness
  996. Valency
  997. Verb-Second Sentence
  998. Vigesimal numeral system
  999. Vocabulary spurt
  1000. Voice
  1001. Voice onset
  1002. Voicing
  1003. Vowel harmony
  1004. Vulnerability
  1005. Whakapapa
  1006. Whanaungatanga
  1007. Whole for part
  1008. Winged word
  1009. Woodland Path Effect
  1010. Word boundary
  1011. Word coinage
  1012. Word family
  1013. Word family effect
  1014. Word formation
  1015. Word niche
  1016. Word order
  1017. Word recognition
  1018. Word separator
  1019. Word superiority effect
  1020. Word-image writing
  1021. Wordplay
  1022. Words and things (res–verba)
  1023. World language
  1024. Writing direction
  1025. Writing system
  1026. Written character
  1027. Zero morpheme
  1028. Zeugma