The Collaborative International Dictionary
graphology \gra*phol"o*gy\ (gr[.a]*f[o^]l"[-o]*j[y^]), n. [Gr. gra`fein to write + -logy: cf. F. graphologie.]
The art of judging of a person's character, disposition, and aptitude from his handwriting; called graphoanalysis by its practitioners. Though its practitioners consider it a science, it is widely considered a pseudoscience, as is astrology.
(Math.) The system or notation used in dealing with graphs.
(Linguistics) The study of systems of writing of languages; also called grammatology.
Wiktionary
n. The scientific study of writing systems or scripts.
Wikipedia
Grammatology may refer to:
- Grammatology, the study of writing systems
- Of Grammatology, a work by philosopher Jacques Derrida
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The linguist Ignace Gelb coined the term "grammatology" in 1952 to refer to the scientific study of writing systems or scripts. Grammatology can examine the typology of scripts, the analysis of the structural properties of scripts, and the relationship between written and spoken language. In its broadest sense, some scholars also include the study of literacy in grammatology and, indeed, the impact of writing on philosophy, religion, science, administration and other aspects of the organization of society. Trigger associates grammatology with cultural evolution.
Usage examples of "grammatology".
This merely exterior, Right-Hand reductionism runs from Foucault's archaeology to Derrida's grammatology, and as such, as a subtle reductionism, is precisely heir to the Enlightenment paradigm.
Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology is very much a book of the sixth kind, and, intellectually speaking, I'm still stuck somewhere between ages four and five.