Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of languages, or of the origin and history of words; the general and comparative study of human languages and of their elements. Also called comparative philology.
Wiktionary
- n. The scientific study of language.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the humanistic study of language and literature
- n. the scientific study of language
Examples
“Hell, you probably think Chomsky's work in linguistics is rubbish just because he's a frothing loon on any other subject.”
“As a monolingual American, any chance to strengthen my linguistics is a plus.”
The Huffington Post: Terry Gardner: Previewing The CW's Fly Girls at 35,000 Feet
“‘I’ and ‘we’ are apparently one of the oldest words found in linguistics, so changing these is a hard thing to do.”
“I understand this view to be more or less orthodox in linguistics these days.”
Economics and Evolution, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Because linguistics is only indirectly applicable to language teaching, changes in linguistic theory or arguments amongst linguists should not disturb language teachers.”
“Sorry about another personal example, but sometimes purely intellectual discourse becomes merely an exercise in linguistics and thereby, a souless detachment from reality.”
Think Progress » Steele: ‘Trust Me, After Taxes, A Million Dollars Is Not A Lot Of Money’
“As a journalist with two degrees in linguistics, I enjoy combining my two fields whenever possible and writing about language for the general reader.”
A discussion with Margalit Fox about Talking Hands: What Sign Language Reveals About the Mind
“Henninger: I think you'd need a Ph.D. in linguistics to figure out what exactly he's saying there.”
“But again, historical linguistics is not an area of any expertise for me, so maybe the opposing argument is as flimsy as he portrays it.”
Book Review: “Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue” « Motivated Grammar
“Additionally, as Gabe discussed recently, these shibboleths distract from the true pleasure of studying language, which is an amazingly rich and fascinatingly complicated system — but instead of being exposed to the excitement of unsolved questions in linguistics, people are instead being drilled on arbitrary and unnecessary rules.”
Guest Post: What’s the Logic of Language? « Motivated Grammar
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘linguistics’.
-
Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
-
Basic Linguistics Terms
Words taught in an undergraduate linguistics class
jargon, slang, idiom, dialect, idiolect, in-group slang, linguistics, paradigmatic, syntagmatic, sign, Ferdinand de Saus..., markedness
-
-ics
art; science; activities
mathematics, statistics, physics, linguistics, electronics, narcotics, orthodontics, orthopedics, cryogenics, bionics, semiotics
-
Linguistic terminology
phonics, phonology, morphology, morphemes, metathesis, allomorphs, phonemes, linguistics, vowel, consonant, noun, pronoun and 6 more...
-
lingui-, linguo
language
linguopalatal, bilingual, multilingual, linguistics, linguist
-
Words I don't know.
lexicographer, scrutinize, linguistics, prune, sophisticated
thebighenry sticky segments of linguini Apr 27, 2008