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Tag Question

A tag question is a constituent that is added after a statement in order to request confirmation or disconfirmation of the statement from the addressee . …

Tag Statement

A tag statement is an elliptical statement that follows and echoes a main clause statement.

Target

A target is the ultimate intended recipient of a speaker 's message, especially when distinct from the addressee .

Target Domain

A target domain is a semantic domain that is structured and understood metaphorically in terms of another domain.

Temporal Relation

A temporal relation is an interpropositional relation that communicates the simultaneity or ordering in time of events or states.

Tense

Tense is a grammatical category, typically marked on the verb , that deictically refers to the time of the event or state denoted by the verb in relation …

Test Term

Text

A text is a sequence of paragraphs that represents an extended unit of speech.

Text Genre

A text genre is a type of written or spoken discourse.

Textually Evoked Entity

A textually evoked entity is a referent that is given information because it has been previously included in the text.

Theme

A theme is the initial constituent of a sentence , viewed in relation to a more highly communicative theme or focus elsewhere in the sentence.

Thesaurus Category

A thesaurus category is an etic semantic category.

Third Person Deixis

Third person deixis is deictic reference to a referent(s) not identified as the speaker or addressee .

Third Turn Repair

A third turn repair is a self-repair in a third conversational turn . It is preceded by an initial turn in which the repairable item occurs and another …

Time As A Semantic Role

Time is the semantic role of the temporal placement of an event.

Time Deixis

Time deixis is reference to time relative to a temporal reference point. Typically, this point is the moment of utterance.

Token-Reflexive Deixis

Token-reflexive deixis is discourse deixis in which the deictic expression refers to the expression or speech act in which it occurs.

Tone

A tone is a pitch element or register added to a syllable to convey grammatical or lexical information.

Topic

A topic is a noun phrase that expresses what a sentence is about, and to which the rest of the sentence is related as a comment .

Transcription

Transcription is the process of representing oral text in a written format.

Transitive Verb

A transitive verb is a verb that takes a direct object .

Transitivity

Transitivity is the number of objects a verb requires or takes in a given instance.

Translational Equivalence

Translational equivalence is the similarity between a word (or expression) in one language and its translation in another. This similarity results from …

Translative Case

Translative case is a case indicating that the referent of the noun , or the quality of the adjective , that it marks is the result of a process of change.

Transverse

A transverse is an expression of place deixis that indicates movement across the line of sight of the speaker .

Trial Number

A trial number is a number that refers to three members of the designated class.

Trope

A trope is the figurative use of an expression.

Try-Marker

A try-marker is a device that is used to indicate a test of the addressee 's recognition of a referent . The device is followed by a hesitation pause in …

Turn

A turn is a time during which a single participant speaks, within a typical, orderly arrangement in which participants speak with minimal overlap and gap …

Turn Location

A turn location is the actual place of a turn in a series. It is represented by a number obtained by counting from the initial turn of the series.

Twin-Pan Balance Schema

A twin-pan balance schema is a balance schema that involves physical or metaphorical countervailing forces acting on either side of a fulcrum.