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n. 1 (context obsolete English) Scientific study of word. 2 The study of logo. 3 The study of words for recreational purposes with an emphasis on letter patterns. 4 (context religion English) The study of words in search for divine truth, compare numerology.
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__notoc__ Logology is the field of recreational linguistics, an activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay. The term is analogous to the term " recreational mathematics."
Some of the topics studied in logology are lipograms, acrostics, palindromes, tautonyms, isograms, pangrams, bigrams, trigrams, tetragrams, transdeletion pyramids, and pangrammatic windows.
The term logology was adopted by Dmitri Borgmann to refer to recreational linguistics.
Logology may be:
- Logology, the field of recreational linguistics
- Logology (science of science), the study of science
- Logology (theology), the study of words in search for divine truth
- an obsolete synonym for lexicology
In theology, logology deals with the verbal nature of doctrines in suggesting a further possibility that there may be analogies between "logology" and Theology. According to literary theorist Kenneth Burke, logology works through the forms of religious language and its functions in the political sphere when rhetoric acts as a symbolic action. If it is true that language is symbolic, then speech is the result of man acting as a symbol-using animal, making it necessary to understand that logology can also be defined as the study of "words about words."
In rhetoric, logology focuses not in finding the truth or falseness of a statement or phrase, but rather why that particular word or string of words was chosen and how those choices influenced the way those words were interpreted and understood by the receiver. There is a belief that there is an analogy between the words chosen and the word that those words express.
For example, if theology is discourse concerning God, then it must be noted that there is a difference between "God" and the word "God." In relating the definition of logology to the term "theology," it then becomes clear that the correct meaning of theology is not "words about God" but instead "words about the word God."
Logology ("the science of science") is the study of all aspects of science and of its practitioners—aspects philosophical, biological, psychological, societal, historical, institutional, financial.
The term "logology" is used here as a synonym for the equivalent term "science of science" and the semi-equivalent term " sociology of science".
The term "logology" is back-formed from "-logy" (as in "geology", "anthropology", "sociology", etc.) in the sense of the "study of study" or the "science of science"—or, more plainly, the "study of science".
The word "logology" provides grammatical variants not available with the earlier terms "science of science" and "sociology of science"—"logologist", "to logologize", "logological", "logologically".
Usage examples of "logology".
Later editions revised the name and some of the doctrines of the cosmic science: it became Logology, his final break with even the word psychology.
They made Logology a legitimate alternative religion, for those who continued to seek such solace.
Friends who are in touch with California Logology, the parent church, as it were.
All the puppets are dancing because somebody high in the Church of Logology knew all along where Thierry was, knew that he had had himself frozen by StarTime upon his death.