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For example, if theology is discourse concerning God, then it must be noted that there is a difference between "God" and the word "God." In relating the definition of logology to the term "theology," it then becomes clear that the correct meaning of theology is not "words about God" but instead "words about the word God."<ref>Burke, Kenneth. "Dramatism And Logology." Communication Quarterly 33.2 (1985): 89-93. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 22 Oct. 2013</ref>
For example, if theology is discourse concerning God, then it must be noted that there is a difference between "God" and the word "God." In relating the definition of logology to the term "theology," it then becomes clear that the correct meaning of theology is not "words about God" but instead "words about the word God."<ref>Burke, Kenneth. "Dramatism And Logology." Communication Quarterly 33.2 (1985): 89-93. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 22 Oct. 2013</ref>


Another use of the word "logology" has been as a [[synonym]] for the equivalent expressions "sociology of science"<ref>Joseph Ben-David and Teresa A. Sullivan, "Sociology of Science", ''[[Annual Review of Sociology]]'', vol. 1, no. 1, 1975, pp. 203–222.</ref> and "science of science"<ref>[http://sci.slis.indiana.edu/ "Science of Science Cyberinfrastructure Portal... at Indiana University"]. Also [[Maria Ossowska]] and [[Stanisław Ossowski]], "The Science of Science", 1935, reprinted in Bohdan Walentynowicz, ed., ''Polish Contributions to the Science of Science'', Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982, pp. 82–95).</ref> Here "logology" is [[back-formation|back-formed]] from "-logy" (as in "geo''logy''", "anthropo''logy''", "socio''logy''", etc.), in the sense of the "study of study" or the "science of science".<ref>[[Christopher Kasparek]], "[[Bolesław Prus|Prus]]' ''[[Pharaoh (novel)|Pharaoh]]'': the Creation of a [[Historical Novel]]", ''[[The Polish Review]]'', vol. XXXIX, no. 1, 1994, note 3, pp. 45–46. Also [[:pl:Stefan Zamecki|Stefan Zamecki]], ''Komentarze do naukoznawczych poglądów Williama Whewella (1794–1866): studium historyczno-metodologiczne'' [Commentaries to the Logological Views of [[William Whewell]] (1794–1866): A Historical-Methodological Study], Warsaw, [[Polish Academy of Sciences]], 2012, [English-language] summary, pp. 741–43).</ref> The word "logology", used in this sense, provides convenient grammatical variants not available with the earlier terms, "sociology of science" and "science of science": i.e., "logologist", "to logologize", "logological", "logologically".
==Logologists==
==Logologists==
*[[Dmitri Borgmann]]
*[[Dmitri Borgmann]]

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Logology is the field of recreational linguistics, an activity that encompasses a wide variety of word games and wordplay. The term is analogous to the term "recreational mathematics."

Some of the topics studied in logology are lipograms, acrostics, palindromes, tautonyms, isograms, pangrams, bigrams, trigrams, tetragrams, transdeletion pyramids, and pangrammatic windows.

The term logology was formerly used to refer to the science of word studies[1] but was adopted by Dmitri Borgmann to refer to recreational linguistics.[2]

Logology deals with the verbal nature of doctrines in suggesting a further possibility that there may be analogies between "logology" and Theology.[3] According to literary theorist Kenneth Burke, logology works through the forms of religious language and its functions in the political sphere when rhetoric acts as a symbolic action. If it is true that language is symbolic, then speech is the result of man acting as a symbol-using animal, making it necessary to understand that logology can also be defined as the study of "words about words." [4]

In rhetoric, logology focuses not in finding the truth or falseness of a statement or phrase, but rather why that particular word or string of words was chosen and how those choices influenced the way those words were interpreted and understood by the receiver.[5] There is a belief that there is an analogy between the words chosen and the word that those words expresses.[6]

For example, if theology is discourse concerning God, then it must be noted that there is a difference between "God" and the word "God." In relating the definition of logology to the term "theology," it then becomes clear that the correct meaning of theology is not "words about God" but instead "words about the word God."[7]

Another use of the word "logology" has been as a synonym for the equivalent expressions "sociology of science"[8] and "science of science"[9] Here "logology" is back-formed from "-logy" (as in "geology", "anthropology", "sociology", etc.), in the sense of the "study of study" or the "science of science".[10] The word "logology", used in this sense, provides convenient grammatical variants not available with the earlier terms, "sociology of science" and "science of science": i.e., "logologist", "to logologize", "logological", "logologically".

Logologists

Bibliography

  • Bombaugh, C.C. (1961). Oddities and Curiosities of Words and Literature. New York: Dover. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Borgmann, Dmitri (1965). Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
  • Eckler, Ross A. Jr. (1997). Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-15580-8.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Logology n. 2". Oxford English Dictionary Online. Oxford University Press. {{cite web}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ Farrell, Jeremiah. "Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics". Retrieved 3 July 2011.
  3. ^ Burke, Kenneth. The Rhetoric of Religion; Studies in Logology. Berkeley: University of California, 1970. Print.
  4. ^ Berg, Herbert. Method & Theory in the Study of Religion. Berlin: Mouton De Bruyter, 2002. Print.
  5. ^ Singh, Surjit. The Rhetoric of Religion: Studies in Logology by Kenneth Burke. Review. 4th ed. Vol. 3. Religious Research Association, Inc., Spring 1964. Web. <http://www.jstor.org/stable/3510454>.
  6. ^ Maddux, Kristy. "Finding Comedy in Theology: A Hopeful Supplement to Kenneth Burke's Logology." Philosophy & Rhetoric 39.3 (2006): 208-10. Print.
  7. ^ Burke, Kenneth. "Dramatism And Logology." Communication Quarterly 33.2 (1985): 89-93. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 22 Oct. 2013
  8. ^ Joseph Ben-David and Teresa A. Sullivan, "Sociology of Science", Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 1, no. 1, 1975, pp. 203–222.
  9. ^ "Science of Science Cyberinfrastructure Portal... at Indiana University". Also Maria Ossowska and Stanisław Ossowski, "The Science of Science", 1935, reprinted in Bohdan Walentynowicz, ed., Polish Contributions to the Science of Science, Boston, D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1982, pp. 82–95).
  10. ^ Christopher Kasparek, "Prus' Pharaoh: the Creation of a Historical Novel", The Polish Review, vol. XXXIX, no. 1, 1994, note 3, pp. 45–46. Also Stefan Zamecki, Komentarze do naukoznawczych poglądów Williama Whewella (1794–1866): studium historyczno-metodologiczne [Commentaries to the Logological Views of William Whewell (1794–1866): A Historical-Methodological Study], Warsaw, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2012, [English-language] summary, pp. 741–43).
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