- 1語文學（研究語言與文獻如何演變；和「語言學」不盡相同，語言學更常看現在怎麼說話）
Philology is the study of words and of the way words and languages develop — especially through written texts. You compare old manuscripts, track a word as it moves from one language into another, and try to hear how people used to write and think. In many universities today this work lives under , classics, or literature, so the name philology can sound a little old. Though actually, in some places it is still a big, living field name, not a dusty one. It is more than 'how teenagers talk this year': the tidy picture is 'the science of language', but a lot of the real work is slow reading, comparing copies, and arguing about a line. Formal, academic, and rare in daily conversation.
組成Inherited from Middle English Philologie, from Latin philologia, from Ancient Greek philologíā, which first meant love of argument or reasoning, then love of learning and literature. The phil- piece is 'love of'.
同家族的字
- philologistthe person who does this work
- philosophyboth come from Greek phil-, 'love of'
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
philologynoun/fɪˈlɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪ/
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The humanistic study of texts and their languages, especially ancient or classical languages.
- Philology and philosophy are treated as reciprocal. They exist on equal footing, and neither functions satisfactorily without the other. Their methods ... are opposite; philology attains to knowledge through induction, whereas philosophy starts from a concept. To formulate his concepts soundly, the philosopher needs an adequate fund of knowledge or data; too many philosophers ... lack a basis in knowledge or tradition
- […]his early philosophical studies converged with his original love of philology as he pursued the “prehistory” of Kantian critique in Descartes, Galileo, and Copernicus, back to Plato.
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archaicrareHistorical or comparative linguistics.
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rarehuman-sciencesphilosophysciencesLove and study of learning and literature, broadly speaking.
- Indeed Philology properly is Terſe and Polite Learning, melior literatura (married long ſince by Martianus Capella to Mercury) being that Florid skill, containing onely the Roſes of learning, without the prickles thereof in which narrow ſenſe thorny Philoſophy is diſcharged as no part of Philology. But we take it in the larger notion as incluſive of all human liberal Studies and prepoſed to Divinity as the Porch to the Palace.
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