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linguistic | constructivism |

As an adjective linguistic

is of or relating to language.

As a noun constructivism is

a Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.

linguistic

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Of or relating to language.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author= Sam Leith
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=37, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where the profound meets the profane , passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths.}}
  • Of or relating to linguistics.
  • *
    • We have argued that the ability to make judgments about well-formedness and structure holds at all four major linguistic levels — Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics.
  • (computing) Relating to a computer language.
  • * 1993 , Dimitris N. Chorafas, Manufacturing Databases and Computer Integrated Systems , CRC Press, ISBN 978-0-8493-8689-3, page 114:
    • The message is that we need language features that deal with schematic and linguistic discrepancies.

    Derived terms

    * linguistic atlas * linguistic turn * logicolinguistic * quasilinguistic * sociolinguistic

    constructivism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (arts) A Russian movement in modern art characterized by the creation of nonrepresentational geometric objects using industrial materials.
  • (mathematics) A philosophy that asserts the need to construct a mathematical object to prove it exists.
  • (philosophy, psychology) A psychological epistemology which argues that humans generate knowledge and meaning from their experiences.
  • * 2000 , Donald Kiraly, A Social Constructivist Approach to Translator Education , St. Jerome Publishing, p. 18:
    • There is no single theory of constructivism'. In fact, there are many shades and varieties of '''constructivism''' spanning a range of perspectives. There is also no single individual who can be identified as the founder of '''constructivism'''. In fact, rather than tracing a linear development along one line of philosophical thought, ' constructivism seems to circumscribe a set of thinkers, theories and approaches that spring from a plethora of historical and cultural origins.
  • * {{quote-book, title=Facets of Systems Science, author=George J. Klir, year=2001 citation
    • , passage=According to constructivism , all systems are artificial abstractions. They are not made by nature and presented to use to be discovered, but we construct them by our perceptual and mental capabilities with the domain of our experiences.}}

    See also

    * constructionism * (pedia)