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Linguistics

🔄 Synonyms of "Linguistics"

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Word	Definition
philologynoun	(especially US) The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.

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Word	Definition
philologynoun	(especially US) The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
languagenoun	(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
languagesnoun	(countable) A body of words, and set of methods of combining them (called a grammar), understood by a community and used as a form of communication.
grammarnoun	(countable and uncountable, linguistics) A system of rules and principles for the structure of a language, or of languages in general.
lexicologynoun	(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
grammatologynoun	The scientific study of writing systems or scripts.
glossologynoun	The science of language; linguistics.
glottologynoun	The science of languages
etymologynoun	(uncountable, linguistics) The scientific study of the origin and evolution of a word's semantic meaning across time, including its constituent morphemes and phonemes.
dialectologynoun	The study of dialects.
phoneticsnoun	(linguistics) The study of the physical sounds of human speech, concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds (phones), and the processes of their physiological production, auditory reception, and neurophysiological perception, and their representation by written symbols.
sociolinguisticsnoun	(linguistics) The study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
morphologynoun	(linguistics) The study of the internal structure of morphemes (words and their semantic building blocks).
phonologynoun	(uncountable) The study of the way sounds function in languages, including accent, intonation, phonemes, stress, and syllable structure, and which sounds are distinctive units within a language; (countable) the way sounds function within a given language; a phonological system.
syntaxnoun	A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
semanticsnoun	The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
pragmaticsnoun	(linguistics, translation studies) The study of the use of language, especially meaning, in a social context; it includes extratextual aspects of language including exophoric reference, phatic utterances, and nonverbal channels.
neurolinguisticsnoun	(linguistics) Science concerned with the human brain mechanisms underlying the comprehension, production and abstract knowledge of language, be it spoken, signed or written.
psycholinguisticsnoun	(linguistics) The interdisciplinary field of study which concerns the acquisition, comprehension and production of language in its spoken, written and signed forms, using concepts and approaches from linguistics, psychology and cognitive science.
onomasticsnoun	The branch of lexicology devoted to the study of names and naming, especially the origins of names.