grammatology
- noun
- /ˌɡræməˈtɑlədʒi/
- Specialized
- Grammatology explores how writing systems shape our understanding of language and thought.
Examples
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Latin American modernism, which covers a span of more than twenty years, left behind a rich collection of literary works that can be seen as a system of texts, a grammatology that reflects the ability of Latin American culture to respond to European cultural input.
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Marginalized, the artist chooses to "create," thus inaugurating a new tradition, a new corpus, and a new grammatology that deals with marginality.
Academic text (1998) -
His writings represent an important attempt at defining the cultural identity of Spanish America, while working on a grammatology whose fruits can be enjoyed in a rich variety of works.
Academic text (1998) -
Once tinkered with, these signs become elements to build the grammatology and the system of symbols the colonial subject needs to respond to the center with a culture and an art of his own.
Academic text (1998) -
However, Dario's use of metaliterary discourse is a veiled response, for his main purpose is to create a Spanish-American grammatology according to the principles of his "estetica acratica."
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The study of grammatology reveals the intricate connections between written symbols and cultural identity.
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Researchers in grammatology analyze how different writing systems influence communication and cognition.
Surface Forms
Morphology
grammatology = grammat + ology
The word uses a classical form related to writing plus the academic suffix '-ology', but the specialized meaning is not transparent to an average B1 learner.
Etymology
Grammatology comes from the Greek word gramma meaning 'letter' and the ending -logy meaning 'study', the same root you see in grammar. So, grammatology is the study of letters and writing and of how writing affects language and thought.
