What is the difference between philology and linguistics? Is there any difference between these two areas?

Answer 1

They are related. Philology is the study of the history of words, whereas linguistics is the study of how words are said.

Answer 2

In the United States, Linguistics is the term commonly used for the study of Language--its structure, origin, development, etc. The original term used for this study (in the 18th and 19th centuries) was Philology (literally, lover of words), since the main focus was the origin of words and later the historical changes within languages. In some parts of Europe (in Ukraine, for example), Linguistics Departments at universities are still called Philology or Neo-Philology Departments. Linguistics is felt to be a more wide-ranging and inclusive term for the science than Philology, which tends to imply historical study. Thus, where the term Philology is still used, modern Linguistics is often called Neo-Philology.

Answer 3

Nowadays if you talk about linguistics than you are talking about indepth study of languages or how they are used in a certain community. But philology means a love of language or words.
Nowadays a philologist is a person who loves words or languages. He might be a person with a degree from a university or he might not, but he loves the study of words and is experienced in using words or languages. But when you say he is a linguistics expert that means he is a person with a degree from a university specialling in the study of the way sentences are constructed, grammar rules, etc.

Answer 4

Yes linguistics is about the science of language. Philology is the love of words where the language it's literature and the historical contexts are taken into account.

Answer 5

They both mean the same thing. Linguistics is a more modern term .

Answer 6

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