linguistics
See also: lingüístics
English
Etymology
From linguist + -ics, akin to linguistic and Latin linguisticus, coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1837 from German Linguistik.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
- (US, pre-/ŋ/ tensing) IPA(key): /liŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
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Noun
linguistics (uncountable)
- The systematic and scholarly study of language.
- Hyponym: applied linguistics
- branch of linguistics
- to study linguistics
Usage notes
Modern 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.
Synonyms
Meronyms
- See also Thesaurus:linguistics
Derived terms
- 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
- paleolinguistics
- paralinguistics
- patholinguistics
- phylolinguistics
- protolinguistics
- pseudo-linguistics
- pseudolinguistics
- psycholinguistics
- quantitative linguistics
- raciolinguistics
- sociolinguistics
- text linguistics
- theolinguistics
- xenolinguistics
Related terms
Translations
scientific study of language
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