What does Linguistic mean?

Definitions for Linguistic
lɪŋˈgwɪs tɪklin·guis·tic

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. linguistic, lingualadjective

    consisting of or related to language

    "linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"

  2. linguisticadjective

    of or relating to the scientific study of language

    "linguistic theory"

Wiktionary

  1. linguisticadjective

    Of or relating to language.

  2. linguisticadjective

    Of or relating to linguistics.

  3. linguisticadjective

    Relating to a computer language.

Wikipedia

  1. linguistic

    Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. It is called a scientific study because it entails a comprehensive, systematic, objective, and precise analysis of all aspects of language, particularly its nature and structure. Linguistics is concerned with both the cognitive and social aspects of language. It is considered a scientific field as well as an academic discipline; it has been classified as a social science, natural science, cognitive science, or part of the humanities. Traditional areas of linguistic analysis correspond to phenomena found in human linguistic systems, such as syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences); semantics (meaning); morphology (structure of words); phonetics (speech sounds and equivalent gestures in sign languages); phonology (the abstract sound system of a particular language); and pragmatics (how social context contributes to meaning). Subdisciplines such as biolinguistics (the study of the biological variables and evolution of language) and psycholinguistics (the study of psychological factors in human language) bridge many of these divisions.Linguistics encompasses many branches and subfields that span both theoretical and practical applications. Theoretical linguistics (including traditional descriptive linguistics) is concerned with understanding the fundamental nature of language and developing a general theoretical framework for describing it. Applied linguistics seeks to utilise the scientific findings of the study of language for practical purposes, such as developing methods of improving language education and literacy.Linguistic phenomena may be studied through a variety of perspectives: synchronically (describing a language at a specific point of time) or diachronically (through historical development); in monolinguals or multilinguals; children or adults; as they are learned or already acquired; as abstract objects or cognitive structures; through texts or oral elicitation; and through mechanical data collection versus fieldwork.Linguistics is related to philosophy of language, stylistics and rhetorics, semiotics, lexicography, and translation; philology, from which linguistics emerged, is variably described as a related field, a subdiscipline, or to have been superseded altogether.

ChatGPT

  1. linguistic

    Linguistic refers to anything related to language, including its structure, development, characteristics, and behavior. It involves studying the components of language like syntax, morphology, phonetics, phonology, semantics, and pragmatics. Linguistics can also explore how language varies across different social or cultural groups, how it changes over time, or how it is processed in the brain.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Linguisticadjective

    alt. of Linguistical

Editors Contribution

  1. linguistic

    Relating to linguistics.

    The linguistic facet of the document was easy to see for everyone.


    Submitted by MaryC on April 7, 2020  

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Linguistic' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3742

  2. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Linguistic' in Adjectives Frequency: #508

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Linguistic in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Linguistic in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Linguistic in a Sentence

  1. Gasoda Surui:

    We feel the threat from all sides: cultural, environmental, territorial and linguistic.

  2. Melanie Smith:

    [ QAnon in Japan ] was the first international community we saw being coherent and cohesive enough to show up on a network round, which means it has its own influencers, it has its own kind of linguistic markers, its own signals in terms of content that's being produced and consumed, we can tell that even with the enforcement action that's now happening on Twitter, that community remains relatively strong.

  3. George Steiner:

    The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

  4. Paul de Man:

    Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

  5. Lidia Gonzalez:

    Although with Lidia Gonzalez departure a wealth of especially valuable empirical knowledge is lost in linguistic terms, the possibility of rescuing and systematizing the language remain open.

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