Assuming everyone knows this word - a word for that assumption
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I'm looking for a word which can describe the phenomena that you assume that if you know a certain word meaning (also an "advanced" word), you assume also that the listener is acquaintance with it. It's more common when native-speaker talks to other native-speaker than it would be if a native-speaker speaks with a learner.
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I'm looking for a word which can describe the phenomena that you assume that if you know a certain word meaning (also an "advanced" word), you assume also that the listener is acquaintance with it. It's more common when native-speaker talks to other native-speaker than it would be if a native-speaker speaks with a learner.
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A little bit of clarification please. Person A and Person B know a "subject", Person A uses an advanced word assuming Person B knows it, but actually doesnt? Or does Person B know it?
– TurkuSama
2 days ago
Why would there be a single word for this. I am guessing "domain knowledge" might be what you talking about. Or "shared vocabulary".
– James Random
2 days ago
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Isn't that just communication?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
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I'm looking for a word which can describe the phenomena that you assume that if you know a certain word meaning (also an "advanced" word), you assume also that the listener is acquaintance with it. It's more common when native-speaker talks to other native-speaker than it would be if a native-speaker speaks with a learner.
single-word-requests expression-requests
asked 2 days ago
SunnySideDownSunnySideDown
507
I'm looking for a word which can describe the phenomena that you assume that if you know a certain word meaning (also an "advanced" word), you assume also that the listener is acquaintance with it. It's more common when native-speaker talks to other native-speaker than it would be if a native-speaker speaks with a learner.
single-word-requests expression-requests
single-word-requests expression-requests
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SunnySideDownSunnySideDown
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SunnySideDownSunnySideDown
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SunnySideDownSunnySideDown
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SunnySideDownSunnySideDown
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SunnySideDownSunnySideDown
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A little bit of clarification please. Person A and Person B know a "subject", Person A uses an advanced word assuming Person B knows it, but actually doesnt? Or does Person B know it?
– TurkuSama
2 days ago
Why would there be a single word for this. I am guessing "domain knowledge" might be what you talking about. Or "shared vocabulary".
– James Random
2 days ago
1
Isn't that just communication?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
add a comment |
A little bit of clarification please. Person A and Person B know a "subject", Person A uses an advanced word assuming Person B knows it, but actually doesnt? Or does Person B know it?
– TurkuSama
2 days ago
Why would there be a single word for this. I am guessing "domain knowledge" might be what you talking about. Or "shared vocabulary".
– James Random
2 days ago
1
Isn't that just communication?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
A little bit of clarification please. Person A and Person B know a "subject", Person A uses an advanced word assuming Person B knows it, but actually doesnt? Or does Person B know it?
– TurkuSama
2 days ago
A little bit of clarification please. Person A and Person B know a "subject", Person A uses an advanced word assuming Person B knows it, but actually doesnt? Or does Person B know it?
– TurkuSama
2 days ago
Why would there be a single word for this. I am guessing "domain knowledge" might be what you talking about. Or "shared vocabulary".
– James Random
2 days ago
Why would there be a single word for this. I am guessing "domain knowledge" might be what you talking about. Or "shared vocabulary".
– James Random
2 days ago
1
1
Isn't that just communication?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
Isn't that just communication?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago
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familiarity (from Wiktionary, 2019):
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
When a person is exposed to a certain word often he will get familiar with it. When the person assumes that other people have received the same kind of exposure, perhaps because they live in the same country or region, they can assume in-group familiarity of the word. The assumption that the other person knows a specific word might come from an implicit understanding that language acquisition comes from the amount of exposure to a word or pattern, which corresponds to its word frequency.
Ellis (2011) noted in a review of chapter 12 in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (2011) that:
Language knowledge involves statistical knowledge, so humans learn more easily and process more fluently high frequency forms and ‘regular’ patterns which are exemplified by many types and which have few competitors.
Explicitly Zipf's law predicts word frequency.
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familiarity (from Wiktionary, 2019):
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
When a person is exposed to a certain word often he will get familiar with it. When the person assumes that other people have received the same kind of exposure, perhaps because they live in the same country or region, they can assume in-group familiarity of the word. The assumption that the other person knows a specific word might come from an implicit understanding that language acquisition comes from the amount of exposure to a word or pattern, which corresponds to its word frequency.
Ellis (2011) noted in a review of chapter 12 in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (2011) that:
Language knowledge involves statistical knowledge, so humans learn more easily and process more fluently high frequency forms and ‘regular’ patterns which are exemplified by many types and which have few competitors.
Explicitly Zipf's law predicts word frequency.
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familiarity (from Wiktionary, 2019):
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
When a person is exposed to a certain word often he will get familiar with it. When the person assumes that other people have received the same kind of exposure, perhaps because they live in the same country or region, they can assume in-group familiarity of the word. The assumption that the other person knows a specific word might come from an implicit understanding that language acquisition comes from the amount of exposure to a word or pattern, which corresponds to its word frequency.
Ellis (2011) noted in a review of chapter 12 in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (2011) that:
Language knowledge involves statistical knowledge, so humans learn more easily and process more fluently high frequency forms and ‘regular’ patterns which are exemplified by many types and which have few competitors.
Explicitly Zipf's law predicts word frequency.
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familiarity (from Wiktionary, 2019):
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
When a person is exposed to a certain word often he will get familiar with it. When the person assumes that other people have received the same kind of exposure, perhaps because they live in the same country or region, they can assume in-group familiarity of the word. The assumption that the other person knows a specific word might come from an implicit understanding that language acquisition comes from the amount of exposure to a word or pattern, which corresponds to its word frequency.
Ellis (2011) noted in a review of chapter 12 in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (2011) that:
Language knowledge involves statistical knowledge, so humans learn more easily and process more fluently high frequency forms and ‘regular’ patterns which are exemplified by many types and which have few competitors.
Explicitly Zipf's law predicts word frequency.
answered 2 days ago
BoondoggleBoondoggle
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I think you're looking for
familiarity (from Wiktionary, 2019):
Close or habitual acquaintance with someone or something; understanding or recognition acquired from experience.
When a person is exposed to a certain word often he will get familiar with it. When the person assumes that other people have received the same kind of exposure, perhaps because they live in the same country or region, they can assume in-group familiarity of the word. The assumption that the other person knows a specific word might come from an implicit understanding that language acquisition comes from the amount of exposure to a word or pattern, which corresponds to its word frequency.
Ellis (2011) noted in a review of chapter 12 in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition (2011) that:
Language knowledge involves statistical knowledge, so humans learn more easily and process more fluently high frequency forms and ‘regular’ patterns which are exemplified by many types and which have few competitors.
Explicitly Zipf's law predicts word frequency.
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A little bit of clarification please. Person A and Person B know a "subject", Person A uses an advanced word assuming Person B knows it, but actually doesnt? Or does Person B know it?
– TurkuSama
2 days ago
Why would there be a single word for this. I am guessing "domain knowledge" might be what you talking about. Or "shared vocabulary".
– James Random
2 days ago
1
Isn't that just communication?
– Jason Bassford
2 days ago