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  Terminology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Terminology, in its general sense, simply refers to the usage and study of terms, that is to say words and compound words generally used in specific contexts.
Ad hoc terminology is prevalent in the translation profession, where a translation for a specific term (or group of terms) is required quickly to solve a particular translation problem.
Terminology is also defined by context, the study of terms primarily concerned with organizing them by the context in which they are used.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Term_(language)   (333 words)

  
 language - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The term language is also used for systems of communication with languagelike qualities, such as animal language (the way animals communicate), body language (gestures and expressions used to communicate ideas), sign language (gestures for the deaf or for use as a lingua franca, as among American Indians), and computer languages (such as BASIC and COBOL).
Natural human language has a neurological basis centred on the left hemisphere of the brain and is expressed through two distinct media in most present-day societies: mouth and ear (the medium of sound, or phonic medium), and hand and eye (the medium of writing, or graphic medium).
Language appears to develop in all children under normal circumstances, either as a unilingual or multilingual skill, crucially between the ages of one and five, and as a necessary interplay of innate and environmental factors.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /language   (914 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Constructed language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
An artificial or constructed language (known colloquially as a conlang among aficionados), is a language whose phonology, grammar and vocabulary are specifically devised by an individual or small group, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture as with natural languages.
Constructed languages are often divided into a priori languages, in which much of the grammar and vocabulary is created from scratch (using the author's imagination or automatic computational means), and a posteriori languages, where the grammar and vocabulary are derived from one or more natural languages.
Since these languages are not usually intended for easy learning or communication, a naturalistic fictional language tends to be more difficult and complex, not less (because it tries to mimic common behaviours of natural languages such as irregular verbs and nouns, complicated phonological rules, etc.).
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Constructed_language   (1618 words)

  
 Philosophy of language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The philosophy of language was so pervasive that for a time, in analytic philosophy circles, philosophy as a whole was understood to be a matter of philosophy of language.
Literary theory is a discipline that overlaps with the philosophy of language.
While the "ordinary language" movement basically died out in the 1970s, its influence was crucial to the development of the fields of speech-act theory and the study of pragmatics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Philosophy_of_language   (5647 words)

  
 Programming language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Few languages ever become sufficiently popular that they are used by more than a few people, but professional programmers may use dozens of different languages during their careers.
In some languages, the meaningless operation will be detected when the program is compiled ("static" type checking), and rejected by the compiler, while in others, it will be detected when the program is run ("dynamic" type checking), resulting in a runtime exception.
The "compiler" for a bytecode-based language translates the source code into a partially compiled intermediate format, which is later run by a fast interpreter called a virtual machine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Programming_language   (3872 words)

  
 PlanetMath: first order language
Terms and formulas of first order logic are constructed with the classical logical symbols
It is usually assumed to be a property of the symbol, and it is bad grammar to use an
This is version 12 of first order language, born on 2002-06-02, modified 2006-08-10.
planetmath.org /encyclopedia/Term.html   (309 words)

  
 Learn Spanish online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
For some, this use of the term castellano or Castilian is a political or cultural statement that Castilian is only the language of Castile and perhaps some areas that Castile colonised, but not the language of their region, where they consider the only legitimate language to be the regional one, i.e.
As the branches of Vulgar Latin began to evolve into separate Romance languages, the term that would evolve into español began to be used to refer to these derivative languages (especially as opposed to the Arabic and Hebrew of the Moorish and Jewish inhabitants of Iberia).
Spanish is often referred to in educated circles as the 'Language of Cervantes' or lengua de Cervantes, in reference to the writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, and in analogy with the expressions language of Shakespeare (English), language of Goethe (German), language of Dante (Italian), language of Camões (Portuguese), and the like.
www.speakteacher.com /language_names.htm   (1794 words)

  
 Reversing Kwak'wala Language Shift
Then different methods and procedures used in various language revitalization efforts throughout the world are reviewed and essential elements for successful language efforts are extracted to develop a proposal for the revival of Kwak'wala for the community and schools.
It is common for a dying minority language to borrow vocabulary and phonology from the dominant language.
The most common error taken by language revival efforts for languages in stage seven is to go immediately to stages four and five of Fishman's model, which have to do with education, before addressing the needs of the foundational stages that have to do with family, neighborhood, and community.
jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/RIL_4.html   (9216 words)

  
 The Sino-Tibetan Language Family
The ancestral Proto-Sino-Tibetan language is thought to have originated somewhere in the Himalayan plateau, the source of the great rivers of East and Southeast Asia, including the Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Brahmaputra, and Irrawaddy.
Other major languages are Yue or Cantonese, spoken in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces; Wu, spoken in Shanghai and Zhejiang province; Hakka, spoken in Guangdong and Jiangxi provinces, and Fukienese or Min, spoken in Fujian and Guangdong provinces and in Taiwan.
Most scholars use the term 'language' to refer to the major varieties of Chinese such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Min, and Hakka, and the term 'dialect' to refer to distinctions within these languages, e.g., Beijing dialect of Mandarin or Toishan dialect of Cantonese.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/may/SinoTibetanLanguageFamily.htm   (836 words)

  
 You Saw It Here First
Hence, the term "native cuer" is a counterpart to "native speaker" and "native signer."
In many instances, the term "transliteration" also does not adequately refer to this process of rendering messages between a cued language and a spoken language.
The term "transliteration" refers to a change of form within a given language without regard for accent or dialect.
www.cuedlanguage.com /first.php3   (978 words)

  
 TermL Specification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A term (a node of a term tree) consists of a label (called a functor) and a sequence of child terms (called arguments).
Instead, terms with a non-empty list of children should generally have tag functors, and non-tag functors should generally be used only as leaves.
For when a term is just a bag of unordered children, ie, when the order is not significant.
www.erights.org /data/terml/terml-spec.html   (965 words)

  
 Visual Language for Term Subsumption
In the visual language, the assertion that an individual exhibits a property is represented by an arrow from the individual node to a concept node encoding the property.
A rule is represented in the visual language as its text label in a rounded corner rectangle with an arrow in from the concept to be recognized and an arrow out to the concept to be asserted.
It is a formal language in that it is syntactically and semantically well-defined and inter-translates with textual knowledge representation languages.
pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca /~gaines/reports/KBS/IJCAI91   (4128 words)

  
 What is programming language? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
Lying between machine languages and high-level languages are languages called assembly languages.
Assembly languages are similar to machine languages, but they are much easier to program in because they allow a programmer to substitute names for numbers.
The choice of which language to use depends on the type of computer the program is to run on, what sort of program it is, and the expertise of the programmer.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/p/programming_language.html   (662 words)

  
 Markup Language (Linktionary term)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In this sense, it is a metalanguage-a language that describes a formatting and markup language.
The term "markup" is historically based on the marks made by copy editors to pages that indicate how they should be formatted and typeset.
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is a markup language that defines hypertext, a markup language that defines jumps to different parts of a document or, in a hypermedia environment like the Web, to other documents.
www.linktionary.com /m/markup.html   (221 words)

  
 LANGUAGE EVOLUTION IN A NUTSHELL
Assuming that languages are species, the real contacts that matter even in the case of the development of creoles are those occurring among the idiolects of individuals who interact with each other.
For me, creoles are among the latest instantiations of language speciation under the specific ecological conditions of the European colonization of the rest of the world.
These speciations are indeed reminiscent of the diversification of Vulgar Latin into Romance languages, of the evolution of English under different contact conditions, and of the speciation of Indo-European and Bantu languages (among a host of all conceivable language families and subfamilies).
humanities.uchicago.edu /faculty/mufwene/language_evolution.html   (276 words)

  
 Language in India
Learning the dominant language may be influenced by many factors including the linguistic differences between the dominant language and the language of the minority, motivation, aptitude, and attitude of the learners.
In this paper, the term 'second language' is used to refer to the language one learns as an additional language after one has acquired their mother tongue and this language is used for day-to-day communication other than in family environment.
The situation, in which a Marathi speaker moves to Gujarat where the language spoken belongs to the same family of language, is different from the situation in which a Marathi speaker moves to Andhra Pradesh where the majority language is Telugu, which belongs to another family.
www.languageinindia.com /march2005/gbalasubramanianattitude2.html   (2508 words)

  
 Language Stability
Language Stability is that feature which allows source code to continue to function as originally designed (and tested) over transitions in compiler/interpreter versions.
When conversion to an alternate language appears to be comparable in difficulty to conversion to a new version of his current language, it appears to the Application Owner that there simply was no defined language there at all.
However, based on previous language instability it is unreasonable to expect even the current “vb.net baseline” to remain constant for the future regardless of promises to that effect.
vb.mvps.org /tips/stability.asp   (3006 words)

  
 Spanish Language Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
English language - Free Encyclopedia nds:Ingelsch simple:English The English language is a West- Germanic English is also one of the primary languages of Belize (with Spanish), Canada (with French Information about language in the Hutchinson encyclopedia.
The term language is Article by Jorge Luis Borges on this unusual English thinker.
() Other Spanish languages shall also be As a medium of literary expression Spanish asserted itself first in the twelfth century: it had been six or seven centuries in the process of evolution out of Latin.
www.rhapsodoioralgreekandlatin.org /spanish-language-encyclopedia.htm   (288 words)

  
 What is language? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
Written languages use symbols (that is, characters) to build words.
In computer science, human languages are known as natural languages.
There are many different classes of computer languages, including machine languages, programming languages, and fourth-generation languages.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/L/language.html   (288 words)

  
 cbs4denver.com - Court Upholds Language In Term-Limits Initiative
Opponents argued the proposal's language was misleading because it failed to fully explain certain provisions, including that term limits would be applied to current justices and appeals court judges, converting their terms to four years; and that it implied the initiative imposes new terms of office, not that it changes existing terms.
Without ruling on the merits of the proposal, the Supreme Court concluded the language was clear because the measure has no provision that would cut short the current terms of sitting judges or justices or the new terms of those who are standing for retention in November.
He also said the limits would be a disincentive to potential judges or justices who would face the prospect of having to return to practices they had not been involved with for more than a decade.
cbs4denver.com /local/local_story_142135952.html   (605 words)

  
 Mid Term Papers: Term Papers on Natural Language Processing
Below is a free term papers summary of the paper "Natural Language Processing." If you sign up, you can be reading the rest of this term papers in under two minutes.
Language Processing, also known simply as NLP, is part of the broader field of
This term papers website is used for research purposes only.
www.midtermpapers.com /12894.htm   (413 words)

  
 An Interactive Visual Language for Term Subsumption Languages - Gaines (ResearchIndex)
Abstract: A visual language is defined equivalent in expressive power to term subsumption languages expressed in textual form.
Expressions in the language are graphs of labeled nodes and directed or undirected arcs.
2 Expressiveness of languages (context) - Mackinlay, Genesereth - 1984 DBLP
citeseer.ist.psu.edu /37824.html   (633 words)

  
 Term Papers on Gender Roles In Language - Term Papers Lab
Term Papers on Gender Roles In Language from Term Papers Lab.
Examine the language in relation to gender, and observe its changing role in society."A businessman is aggressive; a businesswoman is pushy.
You can order custom term papers online on any term paper topic by using our custom term papers order form.
www.termpaperslab.com /term-papers/27405.html   (434 words)

  
 Metro Technology Centers - Short-Term - Language & Communication
This is a basic course for parents who want to teach their babies to communicate by the use of ASL sign language.
Receive training in American Sign Language by the category method, one of the most popular and preferred methods of learning sign language.
Acquire proficiency in the Spanish language and enrich your cultural awareness.
www.metrotech.org /short_term/lac.html   (439 words)

  
 Long Term Italian Courses in Rome. Learn Italian language in Italy
Our long term course is basically an intensive Italian language course which includes four hours of group lessons a day.
For students who enroll in a 12 week Italian language course we offer a special price of € 1.500,00 (396 Euros less than a normal intensive course) + € 50,00 of application fee and € 22 for the text books and teaching materials.
By the end of your stay in a 12 or 24 week long term course, you will be fluent in Italian and have the capacity to see Italy through your own eyes, understand better the Italian culture and enjoy one of the best times of your life in the Eternal City, Rome.
www.torredibabele.com /long-term-courses.htm   (677 words)

  
 Extensible Term Language | Lambda the Ultimate
I’m currently working on open source project that has a goal to create a language definition framework that can be used as textual DSL construction kit.
Given a grammar for a general purpose language (GPL), it is easy to embed a small or medium-sized DSL in the GPL.
A language doesn't have to be Turing-complete to have semantics.
lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/1286   (3449 words)

  
 Setting Source and Target Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A list of source language terms appears in the term list in the left hand pane.
A list of source language terms appears iin the term list in the left hand pane.
Click on a term in the source language term list to display the corresponding entry.
wtoterm.wto.org /help/Setting_Source_and_Target_Languages.htm   (93 words)

  
 Language Grants - Short-Term Refresher Grants
Grants will be made for advanced study of the same principal modern languages of East and Southeast Asia as are available for Blakemore Freeman Fellowships.
A focused, well-defined career objective involving Asia in which regular use of the language is an important aspect.
The request should include a statement of why additional language study is desired and how the applicant has used the language since last receiving a Blakemore grant.
www.blakemorefoundation.org /Refresher.htm   (602 words)

  
 Term Papers on ON THE DESIGN OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULA - Term Papers Lab
Term Papers on ON THE DESIGN OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE CURRICULA from Term Papers Lab.
It includes data such as content, language learning objectives, instructional approaches and procedures, materials required, and criteria for constructing an assessment for the lesson.
It is like a map guiding someone to his / her destination through unknown or known paths and places.
www.termpaperslab.com /term-papers/64270.html   (405 words)

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