different between linguistics vs lexicography

English

Etymology

From linguist +? -ics, a modification of earlier linguistic, coined by English polymath William Whewell in 1837 from German Linguistik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l????w?st?ks/
• (US, pre-/?/ tensing) IPA^(key): /li???w?st?ks/

Noun

Wikiversity

linguistics (uncountable)

1. The scientific study of language.

Synonyms

• glossology, glottology
• linguistry
• speechlore
• wordlore

Meronyms

• See also Thesaurus:linguistics

Derived terms

Related terms

• linguist
• linguistic

Translations

See also

• diction
• grammar
• morphology
• philology
• phonetics
• phonology
• pragmatics
• semantics
• syntax

Anagrams

• linguicists

English

Etymology

From lexico- (prefix meaning ‘speech; words’) +? -graphy (suffix meaning ‘something written about a specified subject’).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?ks??k????fi/, /-s?-/
• Hyphenation: lex?i?co?gra?phy

Noun

lexicography (countable and uncountable, plural lexicographies)

1. (uncountable) The art or craft of compiling, writing, and editing dictionaries.
2. (uncountable, linguistics) The scholarly discipline of analysing and describing the semantic, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relationships within the lexicon (vocabulary) of a language and developing theories of dictionary components and structures linking the data in dictionaries.
3. (countable) A dictionary, a lexicon, a wordbook.

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References

Further reading

• lexicography on Wikipedia.Wikipedia