Definitions

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  • noun The study and science of systems of graphic script.

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  • noun The scientific study of writing systems or scripts.

Etymologies

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[Greek gramma, grammat-, letter; see grammar + –logy.]

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Coined by linguist Ignace Gelb in 1952.

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Examples

  • Even Derrida took language as highest philosophy and profoundly meditated in his book. on grammatology.

    Archive 2007-06-01 enowning 2007

  • Even Derrida took language as highest philosophy and profoundly meditated in his book. on grammatology.

    enowning enowning 2007

  • I believe this is the case with Sri Aurobindo too, which is what makes those who are open to his word, bypass the grammatology and awake to the Truth-validity behind its address.

    A discourse expands through fragmented realities being forced to share a world Tusar N Mohapatra 2007

  • We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non-reactive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies.

    onion soup | smitten kitchen 2006

  • We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non-reactive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies.

    smitten kitchen | onion soup | print template 2006

  • In this sense, différance as the spacing of difference, as archi-writing, would be the gram of grammatology.

    Postmodernism Aylesworth, Gary 2005

  • Applied grammatology uses psychoanalytic practices, including the notion of a structuring absence or unconscious, to challenge the metaphysics of presence and the self-conscious subject (the tenor).

    David E's Fablog 2009

  • The study of grammatology, or the investigation of writing, is a fascinating topic.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol II No 4 1976

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