philology

/fi-lol-uh-jee/US // fɪˈlɒl ə dʒi //UK // (fɪˈlɒlədʒɪ) //

语言学,文字学,语文学,语文学

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning.
- : linguistics, especially historical and comparative linguistics.
- : Obsolete. the love of learning and literature.

Jews and Arabs reach back, via philology as well as place of origin, to the same gene pool.
Under this, the only scientific conception of Philology, the study of Antiquities takes at once a higher place.
Whitney puts it thus: Philology deals with human speech and with all that speech discloses as to the nature and history of man.
But Classical Philology is much more than the science of understanding and interpreting the classical languages.
Celtic ethnology and philology (see Celt) are still in the "age of discussion."
It is not probable that the study of philology will ever attract the same attention here that it does abroad.