structural linguistics

1. 1.

   linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse

   Synonymsstructuralism

   Broaderlinguistics

Questions about structural linguistics

What does structural linguistics mean?

structural linguistics means "linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse".

What is another word for structural linguistics?

Close synonyms include structuralism. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is structural linguistics a common word?

structural linguistics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.