linguistics
See also: lingüístics
English
editEtymology
editFrom linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1847 from German Linguistik.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlinguistics (uncountable)
- The systematic and scholarly study of language.
- Synonyms: glossology, glottology, linguistry, speechlore, wordlore
- a branch of linguistics
- to study linguistics
- 1997, Jacob W. Gruber, “American Philosophical Society”, in History of Physical Anthropology, page 64:
- By the end of the century, the APS’s membership included the leaders of the American anthropological establishment, whose primary investigative interests were the ethnography, linguistics, archeology, and physical anthropology of the American Indian, within a theoretical structure that was essentially historical.
Usage notes
editModern linguistics does not include learning a new language, rhetoric, speech writing, comparative philology, or other language-related disciplines that were prevalent before the 20th century.
Meronyms
edit- See also Thesaurus:linguistics
Derived terms
edit- algebraic linguistics
- anthropolinguistics
- applied linguistics
- archaeolinguistics
- armchair linguistics
- astrolinguistics
- biolinguistics
- clinical linguistics
- cognitive linguistics
- comparative linguistics
- computational linguistics
- contact linguistics
- contrastive linguistics
- corpus linguistics
- critical applied linguistics
- cryptolinguistics
- culinary linguistics
- cunning linguistics
- cyberlinguistics
- demolinguistics
- diachronic linguistics
- ecolinguistics
- ethnolinguistics
- Eurolinguistics
- evolutionary linguistics
- folk linguistics
- forensic linguistics
- functional linguistics
- geolinguistics
- historical linguistics
- interlinguistics
- internet linguistics
- lavender linguistics
- macrolinguistics
- metalinguistics
- microlinguistics
- neolinguistics
- netlinguistics
- neurolinguistics
- paedolinguistics
- palaeolinguistics
- paleolinguistics
- paralinguistics
- patholinguistics
- pedolinguistics
- phylolinguistics
- protolinguistics
- pseudolinguistics
- pseudo-linguistics
- psycholinguistics
- quantitative linguistics
- raciolinguistics
- sociolinguistics
- text linguistics
- theolinguistics
- xenolinguistics
Related terms
editTranslations
editscientific study of language
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