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microlinguistics, n. pl. (const. as sing.)|ˌmaɪkrəʊlɪŋˈgwɪstɪks| [f. micro- 2 a + linguistic n. b.] (See quots. 1949, 1972.) So microlinˈguistic a.
1949G. L. Trager in Studies in Ling.: Occasional Papers i. 2 The whole of the field concerned with language..we shall call Macrolinguistics. The three subdivisions we shall call Prelinguistics, Microlinguistics, Metalinguistics. Ibid. 4 Microlinguistics..deals with the analysis of language systems. 1953Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Ling. XIX. ii. Suppl. 28 Smith presented the conceptual scheme developed at the Foreign Service Institute which divides linguistics into three main compartments:..‘microlinguistics’ deals with the analysis of linguistic systems. Ibid. 29 He gave an example of the sort of methodological error which Smith's separation of microlinguistic and metalinguistic levels would avoid. 1955S. & M. T. Chase Power of Words x. 101 Microlinguistics..takes a long time to reach a unit as large as the sentence. 1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 138 Since distinctive articulatory features form part of a system of contrastive correlations, any analysis based on this structure is micro-, not extralinguistic. 1967D. Steible Conc. Handbk. Ling. 78 Microlinguistic meaning. The term refers to the identity or difference in meaning which results when a part of a larger structure is replaced by a different part. 1972Hartmann & Stork Dict. Lang. & Ling. 141/2 Microlinguistics, those aspects of linguistic studies which are concerned with the direct analysis of linguistic material, e.g. phonology, grammar, lexicology. |