View synonyms for linguistics

linguistics

[ ling-gwis-tiks ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, (used with a singular verb)

the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.

linguistics

/ lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks /

functioning as singular the scientific study of language See also historical linguistics descriptive linguistics

First recorded in 1850–55; linguistic, -ics

I realized that this guy, who is on the left edge of politics, has this career in linguistics.

The fate of linguistics, therefore, turned on a simple twist of chance.

In linguistics, scholars discuss written- versus spoken-language paradigms.

But the ambition announced in these pages is not limited to questions of linguistics or anthropology.

The court held—I think quite sensibly—that the issue turned on substance rather than linguistics.

It becomes the end with linguistics the means, and this is the true relation between them.

Our needs lie in the direction of the natural sciences rather than in the direction of history and linguistics.

“Phonetic laws” make up a large and fundamental share of the subject-matter of linguistics.

Had not a "universal religion" better let linguistics alone?

Knowing of Bayne's hobby for linguistics, the oculist jocularly turned these archaic curios over to him.

Browse