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Definition of Philology

Philology
Philology Phi*lol"o*gy, n. [L. philologia love of learning, interpretation, philology, Gr. ?: cf. F. philologie. See Philologer.] 1. Criticism; grammatical learning. [R.] --Johnson. 2. The study of language, especially in a philosophical manner and as a science; the investigation of the laws of human speech, the relation of different tongues to one another, and historical development of languages; linguistic science. Note: Philology comprehends a knowledge of the etymology, or origin and combination of words; grammar, the construction of sentences, or use of words in language; criticism, the interpretation of authors, the affinities of different languages, and whatever relates to the history or present state of languages. It sometimes includes rhetoric, poetry, history, and antiquities. 3. A treatise on the science of language.

Meaning of Philology from wikipedia

- Philology (from Ancient Gr**** φιλολογία (philología) 'love of word') is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection...
- New Philology can refer to: The nineteenth-century intellectual movement in philology known in German as Neuphilologie New Philology (Latin America), a...
- This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Bulgarian (/bʌlˈɡɛəriən/...
- Africa and parts of the Middle East. Philology is the study of language preserved in written sources; classical philology is thus concerned with understanding...
- (1/2): 36–59. JSTOR 41927278. Rachewiltz, Igor de. Introduction to Altaic philology: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu / by Igor de Rachewiltz and Volker Rybatzki;...
- position of Diebold Professor of Comparative Philology (designated the Professor of Comparative Philology 1868–82 and 1925–2003, and known as the Corpus...
- On The Marriage of Philology and Mercury (Latin: De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii) is a single encyclopedic work, written by Marti**** Capella, sometimes...
- In philology, a commentary is a line-by-line or even word-by-word explication usually attached to an edition of a text in the same or an accompanying...
- Germanic philology is the philological study of the Germanic languages, particularly from a comparative or historical perspective. The beginnings of research...
- and speech-writing, rhetoric, composition studies, creative writing, philology and etymology, journalism, poetry, publishing, the philosophy of language...