Literature vs Linguistics - What's the difference?
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As a noun literature is the body of all written works. As an adjective linguistics is .
literature Alternative forms
* literatuer (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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- The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
Written fiction of a high standard.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
Meronyms
* See also
Related terms
* letter
* literal
* literacy
* literate
* literary
Anagrams
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linguistics English
Synonyms
* (l)
Meronyms
* See also
Derived terms
* algebraic linguistics
* applied linguistics
* archaeolinguistics
* biolinguistics
* clinical linguistics
* comparative linguistics
* computational linguistics
* diachronic linguistics
* ecolinguistics
* ethnolinguistics
* Eurolinguistics
* evolutionary linguistics
* historical linguistics
* interlinguistics
* metalinguistics
* microlinguistics
* neurolinguistics
* paleolinguistics
* pseudolinguistics
* psycholinguistics
* sociolinguistics
* theolinguistics
* xenolinguistics
Related terms
* linguist
* linguistic
See also
* diction
* grammar
* morphology
* philology
* phonetics
* phonology
* pragmatics
* semantics
* syntax
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