languistics
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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
A modification of linguistics. Coined by linguist Nelson H. Brooks in 1960 (see quotation below).
Noun[edit]
languistics (uncountable)
- (linguistics) A proposed subfield of linguistics which focuses on language learning.
- 1960, Nelson H. Brooks, Language and Language Learning: Theory and Practice, New York, N.Y., San Diego, C.A.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., pages 174–176:
- This new field of activity—once it is clearly marked out and acknowledged—will need to be identified by a new name. We propose to call it languistics, and to call the person who is trained in this field a languist. […] Languistics will continue to find in words the present state and past history of their form and meaning, and in language the manner in which it operates and changes.
- 1982, Hector Hammerly, Synthesis in Second Language Teaching: An Introduction to Languistics (Series in Linguistics; 1), Blaine, W.A., North Burnaby, B.C.: Second Language Publications, →ISBN, page 22:
- To be a science, languistics will have to break with much of the past, to develop its own theory and to apply it according to its own principles and procedures.
- 1987 December, H. Jay Siskin, “Textbooks, CAI Software, and Methodology”, in The French Review, volume 61, number 2, Champaign, I.L.: American Association of Teachers of French, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 327:
- In this second volume in his series on languistics, Hammerly proposes make explicit the theory that was implicitly stated in volume 1, Synthesis in Second Language Teaching: An Introduction to Languistics.
Usage notes[edit]
- The terms languistics and languist have not gained broad acceptance within the linguistics community.
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Etymology 2[edit]
Noun[edit]
languistics
- Misspelling of linguistics.