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[ ling-gwis -tiks ] SHOW IPA
/ lɪŋˈgwɪs tɪks / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun (used with a singular verb ) the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and historical linguistics.
Origin of linguistics First recorded in 1850–55; see origin at linguistic, -ics
Words nearby linguistics linguistic borrowing, linguistic form, linguistic geography, linguistician, linguistic philosophy, linguistics , linguistic stock, linguistic universal, lingula, lingular, lingulate
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Example sentences from the Web for linguistics A few years ago, David Adger was in his office at Queen Mary University of London, where he is a professor of linguistics , when the phone rang.
Talking Is Throwing Fictional Worlds at One Another - Issue 89: The Dark Side | Kevin Berger| September 9, 2020| Nautilus
GTCOM has established partnerships with linguistics researchers worldwide.
How China surveils the world | Tate Ryan-Mosley| August 19, 2020| MIT Technology Review
The fate of linguistics , therefore, turned on a simple twist of chance.
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky? | Jimmy So| November 20, 2013| DAILY BEAST
I realized that this guy, who is on the left edge of politics, has this career in linguistics .
What Is Michel Gondry Doing With Noam Chomsky? | Jimmy So| November 20, 2013| DAILY BEAST
In linguistics , scholars discuss written- versus spoken-language paradigms.
Ben Yagoda: How I Not Write Bad | Noah Charney| February 13, 2013| DAILY BEAST
But the ambition announced in these pages is not limited to questions of linguistics or anthropology.
Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ and the Birth of Deconstruction | Benoît Peeters| December 21, 2012| DAILY BEAST
The court held—I think quite sensibly—that the issue turned on substance rather than linguistics .
The Supreme Court Ruling on Obamacare: 16 Experts Weigh in | Matthew DeLuca| June 28, 2012| DAILY BEAST
Had not a "universal religion" better let linguistics alone?
Bahaism and Its Claims | Samuel Graham Wilson
Knowing of Bayne's hobby for linguistics , the oculist jocularly turned these archaic curios over to him.
The Ordeal | Charles Egbert Craddock
The labors of the two brothers, too numerous to cite here, concerned also ethnography and linguistics .
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, | Various
Would that I could place in sharp contrast to this the state of American linguistics in our own country!
American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them | Daniel G. Brinton
If they are essential to a comprehension of the red race, not less so are they to the science of linguistics in general.
American Languages, and Why We Should Study Them | Daniel G. Brinton
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British Dictionary definitions for linguistics noun (functioning as singular) the scientific study of language See also historical linguistics, descriptive linguistics
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Words related to linguistics alphabet, syntax, stratification, rudiments, structure, elements, principles, accidence, fundaments, morphology, tagmemics