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Sprachwissenschaft: linguistics — meaning and examples | JadoLearn

DictionarySprachwissenschaft

Quality-approved learning entrynounLevel B2

Sprachwissenschaft

linguistics

the scientific study of language, its structure, use, development, and variation

IPA/ˈʃpʁaːxvɪsn̩ˌʃaft/

Primary stress is on Sprach; schaft has secondary stress.

Meaning 1formal · 92%

the scientific study of language, its structure, use, development, and variation

Sie studiert Sprachwissenschaft im dritten Semester.

Die Sprachwissenschaft untersucht auch alltägliche Gespräche und digitale Kommunikation.

Ein Abschluss in Sprachwissenschaft eröffnet verschiedene berufliche Wege.

Sprachwissenschaft is a discipline name and should not be confused with simply learning foreign languages.

Sprachwissenschaft asks how language works, changes, and is used; it is not a synonym for language learning.

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What does Sprachwissenschaft study?

Sprachwissenschaft is the academic study of language; Linguistik is the common international synonym.