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• Linguistics
  ...nd systems and abstract sound units). [[Phonetics]] is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds ([[phone]]s), non-spe ...inguistics]] attempts to account for the origins of language; [[historical linguistics]] explores language change and [[sociolinguistics]] looks at the relation b
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• Corpora
  In [[linguistics]], a ''corpus'' (plural '''corpora''') or textcorpora) or text corpus is a ...ious types of corpora are also the subject of much work in [[computational linguistics]], [[speech recognition]] and [[machine translation]], where they are often
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• Corpus
  In [[linguistics]], a ''corpus'' (plural '''corpora''') or textcorpora) or [[text]] corpus i ...ious types of corpora are also the subject of much work in [[computational linguistics]], speech recognition and [[machine]] [translation]], where they are often
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• Semantics
  :a : the [[historical]] and [[psychological]] [[study]] and the classification of [[changes]] in ...a long period of time, most notably in the field of formal semantics. In [[linguistics]], it is the [[study]] of [[interpretation]] of signs or [[symbols]] as use
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• Pejorative
  ...dude". In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_linguistics historical linguistics], this [[phenomenon]] is known as ''melioration'', or ''amelioration'', rec
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• Etymology
  ...ds]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_linguistics comparative linguistics] to reconstruct [[information]] about languages that are too old for any di ...nguage'' in 1786, laying the [[foundation]] for the field of Indo-European linguistics.
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• Philology
  ...describes the study of a language together with its [[literature]] and the historical and cultural contexts that are indispensable for an understanding of the [[ ...tific approaches to human language but gave way to the modern science of [[linguistics]] in the early 20th century due to the influence of [[Ferdinand de Saussure
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• Past
  ...haeoastronomy, chronology, [[geology]], (historical geology), historical [[linguistics]], [[law]], paleontology, paleobotany, paleoethnobotany, palaeogeography, p
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• Information Theory
  ...lity of mobile phones, the development of the [[Internet]], the study of [[linguistics]] and of human perception, the understanding of [[black hole]]s, and numero ...phy]] and [[cryptanalysis]]. ''See the article [[ban (information)]] for a historical application.''
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• Archaeology
  ...story, art history, [[classics]], ethnology, [[geography]], [[geology]], [[linguistics]], semiology, [[physics]], [[information science]]s, [[chemistry]], statist ...but [[historic]], literate cultures as well, through the sub-discipline of historical archaeology. For many literate cultures, such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• Repetition
  ..., written, electric); and the weight of the syntactic conventions of music-historical [[traditions]]" . ...museme is a minimal [[unit]] of [[meaning]], [[analgous]] to morpheme in [[linguistics]], and musematic repetition is "at the level of the short figure, often use
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• Discourse
  ...Foucault's analysis of historical and political discourse|analysis of the historical and political discourse]]; there is a "polymorphic tactics" of discourses. In [[computational linguistics]] practice, a discourse may lightly refer to a cohesive piece of text, such
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• Semitic
  In [[linguistics]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnology ethnology], '''Semitic''' (f ...wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Semitic Proto-Semitic] language, [[ancestral]] to historical Semitic languages in the Middle East, is thought to have been originally fr
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• Curriculum
  ...n Franklin Bobbitt]] noted that the [[idea]] of curriculum has its [[Root (linguistics)|roots]] in the [[Latin]] word for a race-course, and explained curriculum ...on of a profession or an [[academic discipline]] through the course of its historical experience). The formation of a group is seen as taking place reciprocally
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• Metaphor
  ...cond subject]''." More generally, a metaphor is a [[rhetoric]]al [[Trope (linguistics)|trope]] that describes a first subject as ''being'' or ''equal to'' a seco Metaphor and [[simile]] are two of the best known [[trope (linguistics)|tropes]] and are often mentioned together as examples of rhetorical figure
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• History
  ...l that is remembered of the past and preserved in some form is seen as the historical record.[https://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn WordNet Search - 3.0], "Hi ...esearch is not limited merely to these sources. In general, the sources of historical knowledge can be separated into three categories: what is written, what is
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• Contemporary Philosophy
  ...ike [[cognitive science]], [[cybernetics]], [[genetics]], and [[generative linguistics]], rich [[literature|literary]] output, and the emergence of the [[Film|mot Just as profoundly, historical events such as the [[World Wars]], the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian
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• Language
  ...tion is offered here. Instead, what [[Anthropology|anthropologists]] and [[Linguistics|linguists]] mean by language is better understood by trying to be clear abo ...oups]] (dialectology), and language variation through [[time]] (historical linguistics).
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• Social Sciences
  ...]] or [[Physical Anthropology|Biological Anthropology]], [[Anthropological Linguistics]], [[Social Anthropology|Social]] and [[Cultural Anthropology]], [[Ethnolog ...isciplines such as [[psychology]], [[philosophy]], [[computer science]], [[linguistics]], [[neuroscience]], [[sociology]] and [[anthropology]].[https://www.teache
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• Literary theory
  ...ry theory have been applied to non-fiction, [[popular fiction]], [[film]], historical documents, law, advertising, etc., in the related field of [[cultural studi ...ice of literary theory became a profession in the 20th century, but it has historical roots that run as far back as ancient Greece ([[Aristotle]]'s ''[[Poetics (
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