PART I: LANGUAGE AND LEXICOLOGY
IN THIS SECTION
Study of Language & Lexicology
Creation, , Omission & Alteration of Words
Misuse and Misinterpretation
Study of Language & Lexicology
Creation, , Omission & Alteration of Words
Misuse and Misinterpretation
Study of Language & Words
LINGUISTICS is the scientific study of language. It involves the analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. Linguists traditionally analyze human language by observing an interplay between sound and meaning. Words are are considered the smallest meaningful unit of speech that can stand by themselves.
The joining of the phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning) compose the structure of the word.
AMORIST is someone who writes about love.
EPEOLATRY means ‘the worship of words’; it first appears in an 1860 book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior.
EUTONY is the pleasantness of the sound of a word.
GRAMMATOLATRY is a worship of letters and words
GRAPHOMANIA is a mania for writing.
HELLENOMANIA refers to the act of using long Latin and Greek terms instead of readily understandable English words.
INCUNABULA are books printed before 1501.
Princeps is a term for first editions or first printings.
LETHOLOGICA is when you can’t think of a word for something
LEXICOLOGY is the part of linguistics that studies words. This may include their nature and function as symbols and their meaning.
LINGUAPHILE is a lover of language and words.
LEXICOGRAPHER: someone who compiles dictionaries. But you knew that. How about
LEXICOPOEIA is a combination of lexis and “poiein,” which means to make or compose. So, to make up or compose words.
LEXIPHANICISM: using long words to impress other people
MILVER was coined by Logan Pearsall Smith for ‘a person with whom one shares a strong interest in a particular topic; esp. wordplay.
OMNILEGENT – someone addicted to reading
ONOMATOMANIA means intense mental anguish at the inability to recall some word or to name a thing.
PHILOLOGY is the study of a language's grammar, history, and literary tradition.
POECILONYM - the word ‘synonym’ has its own synonym: it is a ‘poecilonym’.
RACONTEUR is a gifted storyteller.
READGRET is the feeling of sadness that you read a book too fast. It also means feeling sad or sorry for reading a book you should have read years ago.
SESQUIPEDALIAN is a word for somebody who is fond of using long words.
WORD GRUBBER was 18th-century slang for someone who used unnecessarily long and complicated words in conversation.
WORDPLAY is rearranging a word in a creative way to change, emphasize, or mock its meaning.
THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
ABBREVIATION - a shortened word or phrase.
ACTIVE VOCABULARY - are the words a person uses for a speech or writing. They understand these words.
BLUESTOCKING - a woman with considerable literary, scholarly or intellectual ability or interest.
BOOK-BOSOMED - describes someone who carries a book at all times.
BOOKLORE - knowledge of facts and figures about books, titles and publication details.
CHORIZONT - the name for someone who disputes the authorship of a particular writer’s work, and attributes the work to someone else.
CLERISY - a distinct class of literary people.
FLORILEGIUM - a collection of literary pieces - an anthology.
GRAMMAR - a system of rules which governs the production and usage in a given language.
HOLY WRIT - a piece of writing having questionable authority.
LANGUAGE - a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication.
LANGUAGE FAMILY - a group of languages that descend from a common ancestor.
LEXEME - the fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language.
LEXICAL — Refers to the words or the vocabulary of a language as distinguished from its grammar and construction.
LEXICOLOGY - the part of linguistics that studies words. This may include their nature and function as symbols and their meaning.
LEXICON - the vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge like the medical field.
LINGUISTICS - the scientific study of language.
LIBRICIDE - the killing of a book.
MORPHOLOGY - the study of structure and form of words in language, including inflection, derivation, and formation of compounds.
NEOLOGIST - coiner of words.
NEOLOGISM - a newly coined word.
ONOMASTICS - the science or study of the origin and forms of proper names of persons or places.
ORISMOLOGY - the science of defining technical terms.
ORTHOGRAPHY — A complete writing system for a language or languages. Orthographies include the representation of word boundaries, stops and pauses in speech, and tonal inflections. See deep orthography.
PASSIVE VOCABULARY - consists of words a person encounters but are unfamiliar to them so they have to rely on context.
PHILIOLOGY - the study of a language's grammar, history, and literary tradition.
PHONETICS - the study of speech and non-speech sounds, and their acoustics.
PHONEMIC IDEAL — An orthography which represents each phoneme with a unique grapheme or letter.
PHONOGRAMS — A succession of letters that represent the same phonological unit in different words, such as IGHT in FLIGHT, MIGHT and TIGHT.
PHONOLOGY - the study of speech sounds in their cognitive aspects.
PROSODY - the study of the structure of poetry.
SEMANTICS - the linguistic study of meaning and the relationship between signifiers (words, phrases, signs and symbols).
SEMIOTICS - the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
SEMANTOLOGY - science of meanings of words.
SLANGUIST - linguist specializing in slang words and phrases.
SYNTAX - the study of the construction of sentences in a language. The formation and composition of phrases and sentences.
TOPONYMY - the study of place names, their origins, meanings, use, and typology.
TYPOLOGY - the classification of languages according to their linguistic trait.
VOCABULARY - defined as a word within a particular language which is known to the person.
VOCABULARY TYPES - there are four kinds of vocabularies. Reading (words understood when read), writing (words used while writing), listening (words a person recognizes from speech) and speaking (words a person uses to communicate.
The joining of the phonemes (units of sound) to lexemes (units of meaning) compose the structure of the word.
AMORIST is someone who writes about love.
EPEOLATRY means ‘the worship of words’; it first appears in an 1860 book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Senior.
EUTONY is the pleasantness of the sound of a word.
GRAMMATOLATRY is a worship of letters and words
GRAPHOMANIA is a mania for writing.
HELLENOMANIA refers to the act of using long Latin and Greek terms instead of readily understandable English words.
INCUNABULA are books printed before 1501.
Princeps is a term for first editions or first printings.
LETHOLOGICA is when you can’t think of a word for something
LEXICOLOGY is the part of linguistics that studies words. This may include their nature and function as symbols and their meaning.
LINGUAPHILE is a lover of language and words.
LEXICOGRAPHER: someone who compiles dictionaries. But you knew that. How about
LEXICOPOEIA is a combination of lexis and “poiein,” which means to make or compose. So, to make up or compose words.
LEXIPHANICISM: using long words to impress other people
MILVER was coined by Logan Pearsall Smith for ‘a person with whom one shares a strong interest in a particular topic; esp. wordplay.
OMNILEGENT – someone addicted to reading
ONOMATOMANIA means intense mental anguish at the inability to recall some word or to name a thing.
PHILOLOGY is the study of a language's grammar, history, and literary tradition.
POECILONYM - the word ‘synonym’ has its own synonym: it is a ‘poecilonym’.
RACONTEUR is a gifted storyteller.
READGRET is the feeling of sadness that you read a book too fast. It also means feeling sad or sorry for reading a book you should have read years ago.
SESQUIPEDALIAN is a word for somebody who is fond of using long words.
WORD GRUBBER was 18th-century slang for someone who used unnecessarily long and complicated words in conversation.
WORDPLAY is rearranging a word in a creative way to change, emphasize, or mock its meaning.
THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE
ABBREVIATION - a shortened word or phrase.
ACTIVE VOCABULARY - are the words a person uses for a speech or writing. They understand these words.
BLUESTOCKING - a woman with considerable literary, scholarly or intellectual ability or interest.
BOOK-BOSOMED - describes someone who carries a book at all times.
BOOKLORE - knowledge of facts and figures about books, titles and publication details.
CHORIZONT - the name for someone who disputes the authorship of a particular writer’s work, and attributes the work to someone else.
CLERISY - a distinct class of literary people.
FLORILEGIUM - a collection of literary pieces - an anthology.
GRAMMAR - a system of rules which governs the production and usage in a given language.
HOLY WRIT - a piece of writing having questionable authority.
LANGUAGE - a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication.
LANGUAGE FAMILY - a group of languages that descend from a common ancestor.
LEXEME - the fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language.
LEXICAL — Refers to the words or the vocabulary of a language as distinguished from its grammar and construction.
LEXICOLOGY - the part of linguistics that studies words. This may include their nature and function as symbols and their meaning.
LEXICON - the vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge like the medical field.
LINGUISTICS - the scientific study of language.
LIBRICIDE - the killing of a book.
MORPHOLOGY - the study of structure and form of words in language, including inflection, derivation, and formation of compounds.
NEOLOGIST - coiner of words.
NEOLOGISM - a newly coined word.
ONOMASTICS - the science or study of the origin and forms of proper names of persons or places.
ORISMOLOGY - the science of defining technical terms.
ORTHOGRAPHY — A complete writing system for a language or languages. Orthographies include the representation of word boundaries, stops and pauses in speech, and tonal inflections. See deep orthography.
PASSIVE VOCABULARY - consists of words a person encounters but are unfamiliar to them so they have to rely on context.
PHILIOLOGY - the study of a language's grammar, history, and literary tradition.
PHONETICS - the study of speech and non-speech sounds, and their acoustics.
PHONEMIC IDEAL — An orthography which represents each phoneme with a unique grapheme or letter.
PHONOGRAMS — A succession of letters that represent the same phonological unit in different words, such as IGHT in FLIGHT, MIGHT and TIGHT.
PHONOLOGY - the study of speech sounds in their cognitive aspects.
PROSODY - the study of the structure of poetry.
SEMANTICS - the linguistic study of meaning and the relationship between signifiers (words, phrases, signs and symbols).
SEMIOTICS - the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.
SEMANTOLOGY - science of meanings of words.
SLANGUIST - linguist specializing in slang words and phrases.
SYNTAX - the study of the construction of sentences in a language. The formation and composition of phrases and sentences.
TOPONYMY - the study of place names, their origins, meanings, use, and typology.
TYPOLOGY - the classification of languages according to their linguistic trait.
VOCABULARY - defined as a word within a particular language which is known to the person.
VOCABULARY TYPES - there are four kinds of vocabularies. Reading (words understood when read), writing (words used while writing), listening (words a person recognizes from speech) and speaking (words a person uses to communicate.