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- Sacred languageLanguage that is cultivated for religious reasons
- Saint George's CrossIn heraldry, Saint George's Cross (or the Cross of Saint George) is a red cross on a white
- Salmon problemArgument on the Proto-Indo-European urheimat
- SAMPA chart for EnglishSAMPA is a computer-readable phonetic script based on the International Phonetic Alphabet
- Sándor Kőrösi CsomaHungarian linguist and orientalist (1784–1842)
- Santiago Muñoz MachadoSantiago Muñoz Machado (Pozoblanco, 10 January 1949) is a Spanish jurist and academic, dir
- Saul KripkeAmerican philosopher and logician (1940–2022)
- Scalar implicatureTerm in linguistics
- ScanlationFan translation of comics, often manga
- SchwaIn linguistics, specifically phonetics and phonology, schwa ( shwah, rarely shwaw or shvah
- Science of readingStudy of reading and its acquisition
- Scientific essentialismScientific essentialism, a view espoused by Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, maintains that
- Scope (formal semantics)Semantic object to which an operator applies
- Scott ThornburyScott Thornbury (born 1950 in New Zealand) is an internationally recognized academic and t
- Scottish EnglishVariety of English spoken in Scotland
- Scrambling (linguistics)Pragmatic word order
- ScreamingLoud vocalization
- Scribal abbreviationAbbreviations used by ancient and medieval scribes
- Second language writingSecond language writing is the study of writing performed by non-native speakers/writers o
- Second-language acquisitionProcess of learning a second language
- Second-language attritionLanguage skill phenomenon
- Second-language phonologySound organisation in a second language
- Secundative languageWay of treating objects
- Segment (linguistics)Distinct unit of speech
- Semantic ambiguityIn linguistics, an expression is semantically ambiguous when it can have multiple meanings
- Semantic bootstrappingSemantic bootstrapping is a linguistic theory of child language acquisition which proposes
- Semantic changeEvolution of a word's meaning
- Semantic featureA semantic feature is a component of the concept associated with a lexical item ('female'
- Semantic fieldSet of words grouped by meaning referring to a specific subject
- Semantic prosodyTerm used in linguistics
- Semantic role labelingIn natural language processing, semantic role labeling (also called shallow semantic parsi
- Semantics and PragmaticsSemantics and Pragmatics (abbreviated S&P) is a peer-reviewed diamond open access academic
- Semiotics of cultureField of study
- Semiotics of dressThe semiotics of dress is the study of design and customs associated with dress (clothing)
- SemivowelConsonants with similar features to vowels
- Sense and referenceDistinction in the philosophy of language
- Sense-for-sense translationMeaning-for-meaning translation of a text
- Sentence processingProcess of understanding speech
- Sentence-final particleWords that qualify sentences
- Sequential bilingualismBilingualism by learning a second language after a first
- Serbian Cyrillic alphabetOfficial Cyrillic writing system for Bosnian, Montenegrin and Serbian
- Serbo-Croatian phonologySerbo-Croatian is a South Slavic language with four national standards. The Eastern Herzeg
- Serial verb constructionConstruction of verb compounds in some languages
- Shamanism among Alaska NativesShamanism among Alaska Natives was particularly important as it served to construct their
- Sheila JasanoffSheila Sen Jasanoff is an Indian American academic and significant contributor to the fiel
- Shifting (syntax)Syntactic process affecting where constituents appear
- Shinsen Jikyōc. 898-901 Japanese dictionary of Chinese
- Shuhrat SirojiddinovUzbek scientist (born 1961)
- SibilantType of fricative consonant sound
- SicIndicates an intentional reproduction in quotation
- Sierra Leonean EnglishSierra Leonean English is the dialect of English spoken by Sierra Leoneans which has been
- Sign (semiotics)Something that communicates meaning
- Signified and signifierConcepts in semiotics
- Silbo GomeroWhistled language
- SilenceTotal absence of sound
- Silent letterLetter that is not pronounced
- Silent WayMethod of language teaching
- SimileFigure of speech marked by explicit comparison
- Simon BoyanusRussian phonetician
- Simple pastBasic form of the past tense in Modern English
- Simple view of readingScientific theory of Reading Comprehension
- Simplified Chinese charactersStandardized set of Chinese characters
- Singulative numberGrammatical number
- Situational code-switchingUsing different languages or language varieties in different social situations
- Skip PrichardDavid Prichard, known as Skip Prichard, is an American business executive who serves as pr
- Skopos theoryTheory in translation studies
- Skunked termWord avoided due to problematic meanings
- Slavic dialects of GreeceThe Slavic dialects of Greece are the Eastern South Slavic dialects of Macedonian and Bulg
- Slavic studiesStudies of Slavic peoples, languages, and culture
- SlavicisationSlavicisation or Slavicization, is the acculturation of something non-Slavic into a Slavic
- Slow readingIntentional reduction of reading speed
- Smederevo–Vršac dialectSmederevo–Vršac dialect (Serbo-Croatian: смедеревско-вршачки дијалект / smederevsko-vršačk
- SmileConscious or unconscious facial muscular movement conveying happiness or pleasure
- SnigletTerm for a made-up word
- Social semioticsSocial semiotics (also social semantics) is a branch of the field of semiotics which inves
- Sociocultural linguisticsStudy of language in sociocultural context
- Sociolinguistics of sign languagesApplication of sociolinguistic principles to the study of sign languages
- SociophoneticsBranch of linguistics combining sociolinguistics and phonetics
- Soft palateFlexible part of maxilla
- SoliloquySpeech to oneself
- Sonnet 132Sonnet 132 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakes
- SonorantSpeech sound produced with continuous non-turbulent airflow
- Sonority hierarchyHierarchical ranking of speech sounds
- SoramimiHumorous homophonic reinterpretation of words
- Sound changeProcess of language change that affects pronunciation or sound system structure
- Source–filter modelRepresents speech as a combination of sound and linear filter
- South Slavic languagesLanguage family
- Southcentral AlaskaRegion of the U.S. state of Alaska
- Southern American EnglishVarieties of English spoken in the Southern United States
- Southern Low GermanLanguage variety
- Spacing Modifier LettersSpacing Modifier Letters is a Unicode block containing characters for the IPA, UPA, and ot
- Spanish adjectivesSpanish adjectives are similar to those in most other Indo-European languages. They are ge
- Spanish determinersThe Spanish language uses determiners in a similar way to English. The main differences ar
- Spanish nounsThe Spanish language has nouns that express concrete objects, groups and classes of object
- Spanish object pronounsSpanish object pronouns are Spanish personal pronouns that take the function of the object
- Spanish prepositionsPrepositions in the Spanish language, like those in other languages, are a set of connecti
- Spanish verbsSpanish verbs form one of the more complex areas of Spanish grammar. Spanish is a relative
- Spanish-based creole languagesCreole language family
- Speak Good English MovementCampaign in Singapore to promote Standard English over Singlish
- Special military operationRussian term for the Russo-Ukrainian war
- Specificity (linguistics)Semantic feature of noun phrases
- Speech analyticsSpeech analytics is the process of analyzing recorded calls to gather customer information
- Speech communityGroup of people who share expectations regarding linguistic usage
- Speech errorDeviation from the apparently intended form of an utterance
- Speech processingStudy of speech signals and the processing methods of these signals
- Speech productionProcess by which people translate thoughts into verbal words
- Speech scienceSpeech science refers to the study of production, transmission and perception of speech. S
- Speech tempoSpeech tempo is a measure of the number of speech units of a given type produced within a
- Speeches of Barack ObamaSpeeches of President of the United States
- Speed readingTechniques claiming to improve the ability to read quickly
- SpellingSet of conventions to represent words in writing
- Spelling beeCompetition
- Spelling suggestionSpell checking feature of many computer software applications
- Split ergativityFeature in the typology of certain languages
- Split infinitiveEnglish grammatical construction
- Spoken dialog systemA spoken dialog system (SDS) is a computer system able to converse with a human with voice
- Sport in Georgia (country)Sport in Georgia has a long history.
- SprachbundLanguages similar by contact, not origin
- Stance (linguistics)In linguistics, stance is the way in which speakers position themselves in relation to the
- Standard EnglishSubstantially regularized variety of English
- Standard languageLanguage variety with substantially codified usage
- Stative verbVerb that describes a state of being
- Stephen KrashenStephen D. Krashen (born May 14, 1941) is an American linguist, educational researcher and
- Steve PykeSteve Pyke MBE (born 1957) is a British photographer living in New Orleans, Louisiana. Fro
- StonewallingType of behavior in certain situations
- Stress and vowel reduction in EnglishPhonetic phenomenon
- Strict conditionalFormal statement in logic
- Strident vowelStrongly pharyngealized vowels accompanied by (ary)epiglottal trill
- Structural linguisticsView of linguistics
- Structured Word InquiryPedagogical technique
- Style (sociolinguistics)Set of linguistic variants with specific social meanings
- StylisticsBranch of applied linguistics
- Subject (grammar)Part of a sentence
- Subject–auxiliary inversionGrammatical construction common in English
- Subject–object–verb word orderFeature of language
- Subject–verb–object word orderSentence structure; the default word order in English
- Subjunctive moodIrrealis grammatical mood
- Subordination (linguistics)Principle of the hierarchical organization of linguistic units
- Subsective modifierType of linguistic element
- SubvocalizationInternal process while reading
- SuffixMorpheme placed at the end of a word
- SuffixaufnahmeLinguistic phenomenon whereby a language allows multiple cases suffixed on the same head
- Suicide terminologyHistorically, suicide terminology has been rife with issues of nomenclature, connotation,
- Šumadija–Vojvodina dialectDialect of Shtokavian supradialect of Serbo-Croatian language
- Suniti Ashok DeshpandeIndian educator (1954–2015)
- SupineIn grammar, a supine is a form of verbal noun used in some languages. The term is most oft
- SuprafixAffix giving a suprasegmental pattern in linguistics
- Suresh CanagarajahSri Lankan-American linguist and academic
- Swadesh listCompilation of concepts primarily for the purposes of lexicostatistics
- Swahili grammarSwahili is a Bantu language which is native to or mainly spoken in the East African region
- Syllabic consonantConsonant which either forms a syllable by itself or is the nucleus of a syllable
- SyllabificationSeparation of a word into syllables
- Symbol grounding problemThe symbol grounding problem is a concept in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognit
- SymboleObject used in France to punish students speaking languages other than French
- Symmetrical voiceGrammatical phenomenon in Austronesian
- SynaeresisPhonological process of sound change
- SynecdocheFigure of speech
- SynonymWords or phrases of the same meaning
- Syntactic categoryWord classes, largely corresponding to traditional parts of speech
- Syntactic movementSyntactic movement is the means by which some theories of syntax address discontinuities.
- Syntactic Structures1957 book by Noam Chomsky
- Syntax–semantics interfaceInteraction between syntax and semantics
- Synthetic languageType of language morphology
- Synthetic phonicsTeaching reading by blending and segmenting the sounds of the letters
- Systemic functional grammarPrimary tenets
- Systemic functional linguisticsApproach that considers language as a social semiotic system