Meaning of languistics | Babel Free

Definitions

A proposed subfield of linguistics which focuses on language learning.

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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