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| quendidil Diglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 6346 days ago 126 posts - 142 votes  Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: Japanese | Message 17 of 26 14 December 2008 at 1:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I think a word coined from Sanskrit/Arabic/Chinese roots would be quite interesting actually. Modern physics already has a few coinages derived from English actually, like "quark", "glueball". Quarks are further divided into six "flavours": up, down, strange, charmed, top, bottom. I see no reason why the liberal arts should confine themselves to Graeco-Latin or French roots.
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| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5933 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 18 of 26 14 December 2008 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
I believe you're mistaken about that. The word 'quark' comes from Joyce. See Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar. About the original question, how about something simple yet suggestive, such as humanistic linguistics? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6185 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 19 of 26 15 December 2008 at 6:14am | IP Logged | |||||
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I would suggest adding a clarifier to polyglottery, such as "Applied Polyglottery", in order to differentiate it from a potential theoretical branch of study. Applied Polyglottery emphasises the learning of the languages, as opposed to the linguistic study of L2A learners. I toyed with the idea of, "Applied Polyxenolinguistics", but felt the name of the discipline shouldn't be harder to pronounce, than the languages themselves.
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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6182 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 20 of 26 15 December 2008 at 6:21am | IP Logged | |||||
In that case, the original root of the word is still English; unless there is an Latin etymology of that word? However, according to wikipedia, Gell-Mann originally named the quark after the sound ducks make and only later on used the spelling "quark" from Joyce. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ronp Heptaglot Newbie Australia ronpeek.blogspo Joined 6128 days ago 33 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Flemish, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Norwegian, Mandarin, Esperanto, Finnish, Macedonian, Hindi, Greek, Indonesian, Lithuanian, Basque, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic (Written), Sign Language Studies: Turkish, Swahili | Message 21 of 26 16 December 2008 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Dear Professor,
I read through your post and the replies with great interest. (In particular, after having created the thread 'Are You A Polyglot And Why (Not)?' in the 'Polyglot' forum, to obtain some insight into key issues in defining 'polyglot', an area I am currently researching.) One cannot always control or predict the variety of (positive or negative) associations people will have when hearing words such as 'polyglot' or 'polyglottery'. However, I believe that as long as you define these in the way you would like to use them, and this is clear to others, there should be no problem. As for 'polyglottery', it seems to have become quite established already here. In a way, as with any new discipline, it is also about educating people and terms/disciplines take time to become established (e.g. 'psychoanalysis'). As a result, I would be inclined to suggest the following: 1. Stay with the overall term 'polyglottery' 2. Polyglottery as an academic discipline contains two related sub-disciplines or strands: i) CMLA - comparative multiple language acquisition ii) Polyliteracy - This would combine some of the suggestions made by others. I personally like 'polyliteracy' (to be distinguished from 'multiliteracy'!), which seems to capture your idea of a reading/study of greats text nicely. As for 'multiple language acquistion', it can be diachronic and/or synchronic, to which I would add 'comparative'. In my mind, this would relate it to, but also differentiate it from, existing academic disciplines (e.g. linguistics, language acquisition, cultural studies, literature, etc.), so it does not appear too much 'out of the blue'. I hope this helps and look forward to your future ponderings. Ron Peek (ronp) Edited by ronp on 16 December 2008 at 5:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Rout Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5746 days ago 326 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish Studies: Hindi | Message 22 of 26 05 April 2009 at 3:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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Anthrophilology came to my mind almost instantly. I believe it's all greek as well. Anthropos - human, philos - beloved, logos - reason. You can take it further and say archaeophilology since that implies study of human culture through remains, although archaeology was derived from cultural anthropology "in the first place." I've always interpreted anthropology to simply mean the study of cultures and so I think it fits well. Edited by Rout on 12 April 2009 at 5:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| be2lewis Newbie United States Joined 5857 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin | Message 23 of 26 16 April 2009 at 7:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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Comparitive Polyglottery
Polylingual Studies Anthrolingual Studies Anthrolinguistics, Anthro Linguistics Anthropological Linguistics (my persoanl favorite) clear, familiar sounding, already used? Comparitive Anthrolingual Studies, (Anthrolingual, I like that) Multicultural Linguistics Anthropological Lingual Studies *****Lingual Anthropology ***** Five stars for this one. (Is it already used?) This is very enjoyable. You should host a contest. Lingual Anthropology would win :) Lingual..Anthropological..etc. are not new or at all "on the cutting edge" terms. They are recognizable words that would bring the concept home to most English speakers that heard it. It wouldn't be a puzzle because it is so transparent. If you want to open this discipline up to as many as are interested then transparency seems an important ingredient. Lingual Anthropology vs. Polyglotery.....It's the "glot" syllable that is somewhat offensive. It's like something in your "gullet." It just sounds rude. As if something were happening way down in your throat, glutteral noises as opposed to melodious lingual song. Whatever you choose will be very fitting. I still vote for "Lingual Anthropology." The study of humanity via language. If someone thinks dilettantism, it only reflects that their current paradigm that in depth multiple language learning is too difficult to realize. Nothing would sound good to them because they aren't able to conceive of the meaning as possible. Thank you for allowing me to contribute. Edited by be2lewis on 16 April 2009 at 8:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7239 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 24 of 26 02 May 2009 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
Multilingual Classicist. Megalingual Classicist. Hyperlingual Classicist. Edited by luke on 14 June 2009 at 12:50am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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