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Word

A word is the smallest free-standing unit of language that carries meaning and can stand alone in an utterance, situated between the morpheme below it and the phrase above it in linguistic structure. Words are analyzed along several dimensions: phonological form, morphological composition, syntactic category, and se…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 19× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2998-4122 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

A word is the smallest free-standing unit of language that carries meaning and can stand alone in an utterance, situated between the morpheme below it and the phrase above it in linguistic structure. Words are analyzed along several dimensions: phonological form, morphological composition, syntactic category, and semantic content, including their denotations, connotations, and the conceptual structures they evoke. In lexical semantics and cognitive linguistics, attention turns to how words encode abstract concepts, how metaphor maps meaning from concrete source domains onto abstract targets, and how figurative and poetic uses of language exploit ambiguity, sound, and connotation to produce aesthetic and emotional effects. Related inquiry examines the harmonizing and expressive power of poetic diction, the relationship between mimesis and catharsis, and how words function within discourse, rhetoric, and verbal art across languages and cultural traditions. Psycholinguistic perspectives consider word recognition, lexical access, and the cognitive mechanisms by which meaning is processed and represented. This area connects lexicology, semantics, stylistics, and the philosophy of language. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on language and the word as a unit of meaning, including studies of poetic language, conceptual metaphor, and the representation of abstract concepts.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Webies in Cyberspace

Safranj JelisavetaCorresponding author
University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia and Montenegro.
Exact topic Language Research doi:10.14302/issn.2998-4122.jlr-18-2015

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 19 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Language Research (ISSN 2998-4122).

Journal editorial board
Marcel Pikhart · Czech Republic Óscar Navarro · Spain

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