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​ABBREVIATION - a shortened word or phrase.

ACTIVE VOCABULARY are the words a person uses for a speech or writing. They understand these words.

BIBLIOTHECARY - one who collects or maintains collections of books.

BLUSTOCKING - a woman with considerable literary, scholarly or intellectual ability or interest.

BOOK-BOSOMED - describes someone who carries a book at all times.

BOOKLORE - knowledge of facts and figures about books, titles and publication details.

CHORIZONT - the name for someone who disputes the authorship of a particular writer’s work, and attributes the work to someone else.

CLERISY - a distinct class of literary people.

ETYMOLOGY - is the study of the history and origin of words. etymologists make use of texts, and texts about the language, to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods, how they developed in meaning and form, when and how they entered the language. The word etymology derives from the Greek word ἐτυμολογία (etumología), itself from ἔτυμον (étumon), meaning "true sense or sense of a truth", and the suffix -logia, denoting "the study of".

FLORILEGIUM - a collection of literary pieces - an anthology.

GRAMMAR - a system of rules which governs the production and usage in a given language.

HOLY WRIT - a writing having questionable authority.

LANGUAGE - a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication.

LANGUAGE FAMILY - a group of languages that descend from a common ancestor.

LEXEME - the fundamental unit of the lexicon of a language.

LEXICAL - relating to words and language.

LEXICOLOGY - the part of linguistics that studies words. This may include their nature and function as symbols and their meaning.

LEXICON - the vocabulary of a person, language or branch of knowledge like the medical field.

LINGUISTICS - the scientific study of language.

LOGOCRACY - government of words.

LOGOGOGUE - one who issues laws or rules regarding words.

LOGOGRAM - a logogram or logograph is a written character that represents a word or phrase. Chinese characters (including Chinese hanzi, Japanese kanji and Korean hanja) are logograms

LIBRICIDE - the killing of a book.

MORPHOLOGY - the study of structure and form of words in language, including inflection, derivation, and formation of compounds.

NEOLOGIST - coiner of words.

NEOLOGISM - a newly coined word.

ONOMASTICS - the science or study of the origin and forms of proper names of persons or places.

ORISMOLOGY - the science of defining technical terms.

ORTHOGRAPHY - study of correct spelling according to established usage.

PASSIVE VOCABULARY - consists of words a person encounters but are unfamiliar to them so they have to rely on context.

PHILIOLOGY - the study of a language's grammar, history, and literary tradition.

PHONETICS - the study of speech and non-speech sounds, and their acoustics.

PHONOLOGY - the study of speech sounds in their cognitive aspects.

PROSODY - the study of the structure of poetry.

SEMANTICS - the linguistic study of meaning and the relationship between signifiers (words, phrases, signs and symbols).

SEMIOTICS - the study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior; the analysis of systems of communication, as language, gestures, or clothing.

SEMANTOLOGY - science of meanings of words

SLANGUIST - linguist specializing in slang words and phrases.

SYNTAX - the study of the construction of sentences in a language. The formation and composition of phrases and sentences.

TOPONYMY - the study of place names, their origins, meanings, use, and typology.

TYPOLOGY - the classification of languages according to their linguistic trait.

VOCABULARY - defined as a word within a particular language which is known to the person.

VOCABULARY TYPES - there are four kinds of vocabularies. Reading (words understood when read), writing (words used while writing), listening (words a person recognizes from speech) and speaking (words a person uses to communicate.
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