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What is the difference between microlinguistics and linguistics?

microlinguistics | linguistics | Derived terms |

Linguistics is a derived term of microlinguistics.



As nouns the difference between microlinguistics and linguistics

is that microlinguistics is a branch of linguistics that concerns itself with the study of language systems in the abstract, without regard to the meaning of expressions while linguistics is the scientific study of language.

microlinguistics

English

Noun

(-) (wikipedia microlinguistics)
  • A branch of linguistics that concerns itself with the study of language systems in the abstract, without regard to the meaning of expressions.
  • linguistics

    English

    Noun

    (wikiversity linguistics lecture) (wikipedia linguistics) (-)
  • The scientific study of language.
  • 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

    See also

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