LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does linguistic communication mean? 

• LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (noun)
  The noun LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION has 1 sense:

1. a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

  Familiarity information: LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

language; linguistic communication

Context example:

the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written

Hypernyms ("linguistic communication" is a kind of...):

communication (something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups)

Domain member category:

accent; accent mark (a diacritical mark used to indicate stress or placed above a vowel to indicate a special pronunciation)

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)

language; oral communication; speech; speech communication; spoken communication; spoken language; voice communication ((language) communication by word of mouth)

alphabetize (provide with an alphabet)

crystal clear; limpid; lucid; luculent; pellucid; perspicuous ((of language) transparently clear; easily understandable)

well-turned ((of language) aptly and pleasingly expressed)

uncorrupted; undefiled ((of language) not having its purity or excellence debased)

synchronic (concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents)

diachronic; historical (used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "linguistic communication"):

usage (the customary manner in which a language (or a form of a language) is spoken or written)

dead language (a language that is no longer learned as a native language)

words (language that is spoken or written)

source language (a language that is to be translated into another language)

object language; target language (the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated)

sign language; signing (language expressed by visible hand gestures)

artificial language (a language that is deliberately created for a specific purpose)

metalanguage (a language that can be used to describe languages)

native language (the language that a person has spoken from earliest childhood)

indigenous language (a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere)

superstrate; superstratum (the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language)

natural language; tongue (a human written or spoken language used by a community; opposed to e.g. a computer language)

interlanguage; koine; lingua franca (a common language used by speakers of different languages)

linguistic string; string of words; word string (a linear sequence of words as spoken or written)

barrage; bombardment; onslaught; outpouring (the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written))

slanguage (language characterized by excessive use of slang or cant)