Language, Meaning & Communication¶
Primes about how signals carry meaning in context and shift over time: pragmatics, deixis, and speech acts; metaphor, analogy, simile, and juxtaposition; register and code-switching; semantic shift; and the narrative and politeness structures that govern persuasion and social risk.
22 primes in this family — primes that sit near one another in abstraction space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its structural–framed character and how distinctive (sparsely-neighbored) it is.
- Analogy — structural · crowded
- Code-Switching — mixed-framed · mid
- Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims — mixed-framed · distinctive
- Deixis — mixed-framed · mid
- Emergent Formalization (Language) — mixed-framed · distinctive
- False Dilemma — — · distinctive
- Grand Narrative (Metanarrative) — framed · distinctive
- Juxtaposition — structural · crowded
- Linguistic Universals — mixed-framed · crowded
- Metaphor — mixed-structural · distinctive
- Narrative Persuasion — — · crowded
- Paradigmatic vs. Syntagmatic Relations — mixed-framed · crowded
- Performativity — framed · crowded
- Pragmatic Politeness Strategies — framed · distinctive
- Pragmatics — — · mid
- Register (Style) Shifting — mixed-framed · mid
- Semantic Narrowing and Widening — mixed-framed · distinctive
- Semantic Shift — mixed-framed · crowded
- Simile — mixed-framed · crowded
- Speech Act Theory (Illocution, Perlocution) — mixed-framed · distinctive
- Teleology — mixed-framed · distinctive
- Variation and Sociolect — mixed-framed · distinctive