Sentence examples for philology from inspiring English sources

Like Schleiermacher and Schlegel, Novalis takes a strong interest in philology and demands that every author and reader must be philologically minded (Teplitz Fragments #42).

She initially studied philology, a good subject in a country where the meaning of words was routinely turned upside down.

WHEN Salam Fayyad resigned on April 13th as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs the West Bank, it was taken as yet another blow to what, by dint of repetition rather than accurate philology, is referred to as the peace process.

HAD he not opted for the navy, a course his father suggested for him, Emilio Massera might have become a professor of philology.

The Uniate seminary in Lviv, the regional capital, educates hundreds of students to a high standard both in theology and in more secular subjects such as philology and sociology.

The negotiation, he explained, would turn on the meaning of words like "revenue", "spending" and "tax"—it would be a kind of high-stakes philology.

To succeed, the Ordered Universe Project needed a team spanning both science and the humanities: physics, Latin studies, philosophy, cosmology, philology, medieval studies, paleography, history of science, psychophysics and linguistics.

Van de Woestijne studied Germanic philology.

The study of religion emerged as a formal discipline during the 19th century, when the methods and approaches of history, philology, literary criticism, psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, and other fields were brought to bear on the task of determining the history, origins, and functions of religion.

Ibn Ezra's emphasis on peshat, the "natural" interpretation of the Bible founded on philology and free of rabbinic interpretations, gained thereby considerable prestige.

In particular, it absorbed from speculative etymology an interest in the conceptual decomposition of word meaning, it acquired from rhetoric a toolkit for the classification of lexical phenomena, and it assimilated from lexicography and textual philology a basis of descriptive data for lexical analysis (Geeraerts 2013).