Lexicology vs Pragmalinguistics - What's the difference?
lexicology | pragmalinguistics |
(uncountable, linguistics) The part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon.
* 1949 Journal of Theological Studies
(countable) A specific theory concerning the lexicon.
As nouns the difference between lexicology and pragmalinguistics
is that lexicology is the part of linguistics that studies words, their nature and meaning, words' elements, relations between words including semantic relations, words groups and the whole lexicon while pragmalinguistics is the study of the use of illocution in a language.lexicology
English
(wikipedia lexicology)Noun
- The fifth is devoted to doctrine; the sixth and seventh to remarks on syntax and lexicology respectively.
