Descriptive versus prescriptive linguistics. Linguistic description is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, which is found especially in education and in publishing.. As English-linguist Larry Andrews describes it, descriptive grammar is the linguistic approach which studies what a language is like, as opposed to prescriptive, which declares what a language should be …

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is a pseudoscientific approach to communication, personal development and psychotherapy, that first appeared in Richard Bandler and John Grinder's 1975 book The Structure of Magic I.NLP claims that there is a connection between neurological processes (neuro-), language (linguistic) and acquired behavioral patterns (programming), …

Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguistics is concerned with both the cognitive and social aspects of language. It is considered a scientific field as well as an academic discipline; it has ...

A phoneme is a sound or a group of different sounds perceived to have the same function by speakers of the language or dialect in question. An example is the English phoneme /k/, which occurs in words such as cat, kit, scat, skit.Although most native speakers do not notice this, in most English dialects, the "c/k" sounds in these words are not identical: in kit (help · info), the …

Holism (from Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos) 'all, whole, entire', and -ism) is the idea that various systems (e.g. physical, biological, social) should be viewed as wholes, not merely as a collection of parts. The term "holism" was coined by Jan Smuts in his 1926 book Holism and Evolution. While his ideas had racist connotations, the modern use of the word generally refers to treating …

Consociationalism (/ k ən ˌ s oʊ ʃ i ˈ eɪ ʃ ən əl ɪ z əm / kən-SOH-shee-AY-shən-əl-iz-əm) is a form of democratic power sharing. Political scientists define a consociational state as one which has major internal divisions along ethnic, religious, or linguistic lines, but which remains stable due to consultation among the elites of these groups. . Consociational states are often ...

Postulados básicos. De acuerdo con Jaruffe y Pomares (2011) [21] la programación neurolingüística parte de los fundamentos del constructivismo, en los que se define la realidad como una invención y no como un descubrimiento. Es un constructo psíquico basado en el hecho de que el ser humano no opera directamente sobre el mundo en que vive, sino que lo hace a …

General discussion. Opposition is a semantic relation in which one word has a sense or meaning that negates or is, in the sense of scale, distant from a related word.Other words are capable of being opposed, but the language in question has an accidental gap in its lexicon.For example, the word devout lacks a lexical opposite, but it is fairly easy to conceptualize a parameter of …

Health, according to the World Health Organization, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity". A variety of definitions have been used for different purposes over time. Health can be promoted by encouraging healthful activities, such as regular physical exercise and adequate sleep, and by reducing or …

In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words.The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes domains such as phonology, morphology, and syntax, often complemented by phonetics, semantics, and pragmatics.There are currently two different …