Re: OT: Colleges and linguishtics and philology, oh my!

En réponse à "Y.Penzev" <isaacp@...>:

>
> I see myself mostly as a linguist, but with no inimical implications
> :-)
> A friend of mine used to say: "Philologists study (particular)
> languages.
> Liguists study things ABOUT languages".
>
In France, philology is the study of texts and written documents, while
linguistics is the study of language in general and languages in particular.
They partially overlap (for instance, to study a dead language, you first have
to study its texts to interprete them. Translation is also a place where
philology and linguistics meet), but they are different specialisations, both
needed. I didn't know other countries had other meanings for those nouns...

Christophe.

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