单词 | philology |
释义 | philologyn. 1. Love of learning and literature; the branch of knowledge that deals with the historical, linguistic, interpretative, and critical aspects of literature; literary or classical scholarship. Now chiefly U.S.By the late 19th cent. this general sense had become rare, but it was revived, principally in the United States, in the early 20th cent. For a fuller discussion of this, see A. Morpurgo Davies Hist. Linguistics (1998) 4 i. 22. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > [noun] > love of literature philology1522 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Court in Compl. Eng. Poems (1983) 292 Nor of philosophy, Nor of philology, Nor of good pollycy, Nor of astronomy. 1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion Pref. sig. A4 This later age..hath, in our greatest Latine Critiques..so receiued that Saturnian Language, that, to Students in Philology, it is now grown familiar. 1613 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Epist. cviii in tr. Seneca Wks. (1614) 445 So that which was Philosophie is made Philologie [L. philologia]. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 195 Whereas hee [sc. Seneca] complaineth Philosophy was turned into Philology; may not we too sadly complain, most of our Christianity is become Discoursive noise? a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 26 Philology properly is Terse and Polite Learning, melior literatura... But we take it in the larger notion, as inclusive of all human liberal Studies. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. x. 50 Philologie, according to its original, and primitive import..implies an universal love, or respect to human Literature. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi ii. v. 18/1 Such Philology as that of Suidas and Hesychius. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. v. 150 All the branches of philology, such as history, civil, ecclesiastic, and literary; grammar, languages, jurisprudence, and criticism. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. ix. 581 Philology, or the principles of good taste, degenerated through the prevalence of school-logic. 1892 Athenæum 25 June 816/1 The fact that philology is not a mere matter of grammar, but is in the largest sense a master-science, whose duty is to present to us the whole of ancient life, and to give archæology its just place by the side of literature. 1922 O. Jespersen Lang. iii. 64 In this book I shall use the word ‘philology’ in its continental sense, which is often rendered in English by the vague word ‘scholarship’, meaning thereby the study of the specific culture of one nation. 1947 E. H. Sturtevant Introd. Ling. Sci. i. 7 Philology is a word with a wide range of meaning. I use it here to designate the study of written documents. 1980 Yale Rev. Winter 312 Philology meant, and still ought to mean, the general study of literature. 2004 Hispanic Rev. 72 442 The bewildering intertextuality that has become the very essence of modern philology. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [noun] overspeecheOE tongue-itch1540 multiloquy1542 long tongue1557 garrulity1581 slipperiness1589 polylogy1602 volubility1602 loquacity1603 lubricity1603 tonguiness1607 overspeakinga1610 talkativeness1609 philology1623 tongue-vice1628 glibness1633 futility1640 linguacity1656 garrulousness1727 linguosity1727 loquaciousness1727 multiloquiousness1727 jaw1748 multiloquence1760 flippancy1789 verbal diarrhoea1808 magpiety1832 big mouth1834 pleniloquence1838 chattiness1876 open-mouthedness1883 gabbiness1887 garrulance1890 irreticence1919 talkiness1934 ear-bashing1945 mee-mawing1974 1578 T. Cooper Thesaurus (new ed.) Philologia, Loue of studie: babling: delight in much talke.] 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Phylologie, loue of much babling. 3. The branch of knowledge that deals with the structure, historical development, and relationships of languages or language families; the historical study of the phonology and morphology of languages; historical linguistics. See also comparative philology at comparative adj. 1b.This sense has never been current in the United States, and is increasingly rare in British use. Linguistics is now the more usual term for the study of the structure of language, and (often with qualifying adjective, as historical, comparative, etc.) has generally replaced philology. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > [noun] tongue-work1598 glossology1716 philology1716 linguistry1794 logonomy1803 logology1820 linguistic1825 linguistic science1825 linguistics1837 glottology1841 linguistic analysis1848 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 102 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Harduin has there several erudite Remarks upon Philology: especially upon the Pronunciation and Dialects of the Greek Tongue. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 353 Philology, or the Knowledge of Words, and their Significations. 1816 J. Gilchrist Philos. Etymol. p. vii Whether that gentleman shall choose a lexicographic department in the field of philology. 1838 W. B. Winning (title) Manual of comparative philology. 1852 J. S. Blackie On Stud. Lang. 7 Philology unfolds the genesis of those laws of speech, which Grammar contemplates as a finished result. 1902 L. Mead Word-coinage vi Professor Bréal has blazed the way for future explorers in the wilderness of philology. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics i. 6 In British usage philology is generally equivalent to comparative philology, an older and still quite common term for what linguists technically refer to as comparative and historical linguistics. 2002 Isis 93 503/1 The Leipzig neogrammarian philologists, who rejected Indo-European philology for a universal science of language. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1522 |
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