Meaning of languistics | Babel Free

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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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