Talk:Philology
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Do English-speaking people still use the term "philology" to describe their study of language? (The word sounds either archaic or foreign to me.) If not, this page should definitely be merged into linguistics. If people still do use the term, can of language, and since Saussure it is the study of the use" but "has never been current in the U.S." Finally the dictionary says that 'linguistics' is now replacing all senses. -- Heron 17:53 Mar 2, 2003 (UTC)
- The usage is still well alive in the majority of the english speaking world (i.e. outside the u.S.)
It seems to me that "philology" has (regrettably) shifted in meaning from being vaguely synonymous with "linguistics" to being vaguely synonymous with "classical studies." Witness the journals http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/CP/brief.html and http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_journal_of_philology/. leigh 19:21, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
- Even if that first sentence has been there ever since this article was created [1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Philology&oldid=273419), I still do not think it is true. Why this restriction to ancient languages? Even if there has been a shift in meaning, the original meaning of the word should be mentioned in the first paragraph. |l'KF'l| 22:48, Sep 20, 2004 (UTC)
