A Conversation with David Valerio
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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The History of Philology
Philology is the study of language as contrasted to linguistics, which is speech centered. What a philologist does is re-inscribe, interpret a text within a text. Terms are glossed, notes appended, commentaries written, and where necessary, transcriptions made and translations affected. All toward the end of producing an annotated edition as readable as as the philologist can make it. Meaning is fixed at a meta level.
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