linguistics
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5.0
- noun
- /lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
- Specialized
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lingüística
- At university, she specialized in linguistics, focusing on syntax and grammar.
- linguistics and language
- Applied linguistics
- linguistics and phonetics
And in linguistics, linguistics is a weird little field.
- And in linguistics, linguistics is a weird little field.
- He's a Harvard grad and Deb Fallows, his wife was a linguistics PhD from Harvard.
- And yet our inner experience inherently transcends linguistics.
- Some things that maybe maybe they are a science, maybe they aren't like linguistics, right?
- And then we have to put abstract systems almost in the heritage of linguistics.
- Then I did a master's in linguistics and journalism in London.
- When it comes to linguistics, the first thing that you want to be aware of is how we're directing that person's attention.
- I had a fantastic interview with Janet Holmes, an Australian professor of linguistics.
- And I was wondering if in the Old Testament stories here, in terms of the linguistics itself, if there are any differences between anger and hatred?
Examples
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And it is now considered one of the cornerstones... of linguistics education all over the world.
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Then I did a master's in linguistics and journalism in London.
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And then my girlfriend at the time who was in Israel, she was a linguistics major.
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I'm a student of linguistics.
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Forty years old, she was a professor in the department of linguistics at Ridgemore College.
Fiction book (1992) -
An interesting beginning was made by Sarah Thomason, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pittsburgh.
Academic text (1990) -
Grinder was an assistant professor in the linguistics department of the University of California, San Diego.
Academic text (2012) -
For modern writers and for linguistics, Barthes tells us, writing is inscription, not expression.
Academic text (1990) -
I am a full professor of linguistics, the author of twenty-one highly regarded monographs.
Fiction book (1999) -
That's before she found out she couldn't make a living in linguistics and switched to journalism.
Compounds
- Specialized
The study of language using computers to process and understand speech and text
- Specialized
The study of how people actually use a language at a particular time without judging it
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A study of language that tells people how to use it correctly
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A way of studying language that looks at its parts and how they work together
How Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Linguistics comes from the Latin root lingua meaning 'tongue' and the ending -istics which means 'the study of'. So linguistics is the study of the 'tongue' — in simple terms the study of language, its sounds, grammar, and meaning.