linguaform

English

Etymology 1

With alteration after Classical Latin lingua (tongue).[1]

Adjective

linguaform (comparative more linguaform, superlative most linguaform)

  1. Uncommon form of linguiform (shaped like a tongue).

Etymology 2

From Classical Latin lingua (language) +‎ -form.

Adjective

linguaform (comparative more linguaform, superlative most linguaform)

  1. (uncommon) In the form of language.
    • 1990, Kim Sterelny, “Homuncular Functionalism”, in The Representational Theory of Mind: An Introduction, Oxford, Oxfordshire; Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, published 1991, →ISBN, chapter 1 (A Functionalist Theory of the Mind), page 14:
      Second, [Stephen] Kosslyn thinks that the representations constructed in visual imagination are syntactically and semantically pictorial, rather than linguaform.
    • 2013, Jonathan Owen Clark, “The intrinsic significance of dance: a phenomenological approach”, in Jenny Bunker, Anna Pakes, Bonnie Rowell, editors, Thinking Through Dance: The Philosophy of Dance Performance and Practices, Binsted, Hampshire: Dance Books, →ISBN, part III (Dance Expression and Representation), page 205:
      I also stress the pre-reflective and pre-conscious nature of many aspects of this reciprocity, which means that some of these relations are sensed without us necessarily being aware of them, as a result of their embedding in all kinds of habitual and ‘learned’ cognitive skills, including our own ability to move, that are practical in nature, not linguaform or conceptual, and not based on inferential aspects of perception itself.
    • 2017, Mark Johnson, “Introduction: Bringing the Body to Mind”, in Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason: How Our Bodies Give Rise to Understanding, Chicago, Ill.; London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 4:
      What is it about the character of this language-oriented philosophy that led it to almost completely ignore the body? The answer, I shall argue, is that (1) its exclusive focus on language as the object of philosophical analysis turned attention away from anything that was not linguaform, []

References

  1. ^ linguiform, adj.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.