Bathmology

Quick meaning: Bathmology is a noun meaning The science/study of the interplay of "degrees" - or, levels of linguistic self-referentiality - in discourse.

Meaning

The science/study of the interplay of "degrees" - or, levels of linguistic self-referentiality - in discourse.

Example Sentences

When it addresses itself distinctly to the Young-Girl, the Spectacle is not above a bit of bathmology.

The qualitative distances separating love, hate, and indifference are what we could learn from a science of degrees, a “bathmology” like the one Barthes dreamed of for the gradations of language.

Every discourse is caught up in the interplay of degrees. We might call this interplay bathmology. A neologism is not superfluous if it gives us the notion of a new science: that of the degrees of language.

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Related dictionary entries include balneology, glossology, metalanguage, dittology, metadiscourse, glottology.

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