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exolinguistic, n. and a.|ˌɛksəʊlɪŋˈgwɪstɪk|
[f. exo- + linguistic a. and n.]
A. n. pl. That branch of linguistics which is concerned with the relation of language to the other elements of a culture; cf. metalinguistics (metalinguistic a. and n. B.) and ethnolinguistics n. pl.B. adj. Of or pertaining to exolinguistics.
1953J. B. Carroll Study of Lang. ii. 29 Several linguists..have pointed out the need for replacing the term ‘metalinguistics’ with a term which would not lead to confusion with its present use by philosophers in referring to ‘a theory of languages about languages’. One term which has been proposed is exolinguistics, the prefix suggesting that one is dealing with something which stems out of linguistics but which is not identical with linguistics. Ibid. 52 These and other problems in comparative linguistics sometimes have an exolinguistic flavor. 1965Osgood & Sebeok Psycholinguistics 3 The term exolinguistics (sometimes called metalinguistics) has been used rather loosely by linguists to cover all those other aspects of language study. 1978Amer. Speech LIII. 246 Exolinguistic procedures involve comparing human language with the communicative systems of other animals. Ibid. 303 When..I got involved in the investigation of language origins, it was exclusively from the exolinguistic angle. |