Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics
Term coined by Catford (1965) and used to denote the ‘situational context’ of an utterance in contrast to its linguistic context.
References
Catford, J.C. 1965.
A linguistic theory of translation. London.
Noun which can be directly combined with a numeral (e.g. apple) as opposed to mass nouns which cannot (e.g. gold). In some cases, nouns can belong to both classes (e.g. fish).
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