• Here are entered works on language in general, works on the origin and history of language, and surveys of languages. Works dealing with the scientific study of human speech, including phonetics, phonemics, morphology and syntax, are entered under [Linguistics.]
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  URI(s)

  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074518
  • info:lc/authorities/sh85074518
  • http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85074518#concept

• Instance Of

  • MADS/RDF Topic
  • MADS/RDF Authority
  • SKOS Concept

• Scheme Membership(s)

  • Library of Congress Subject Headings

• Collection Membership(s)

  • LCSH Collection - Authorized Headings
  • LCSH Collection - General Collection

• Variants

  • Foreign languages
  • Languages

• Broader Terms

  • Anthropology
  • Communication
  • Ethnology
  • Information theory
  • Meaning (Psychology)
  • Philology

• Narrower Terms

  • Academic language
  • Antisemitism in language
  • Bias-free language
  • Bilingualism
  • Children--Language
  • Christian education and language
  • Christian union--Language question
  • Classification--Books--Language and languages
  • Colloquial language
  • Confusion of tongues
  • Courts and courtiers--Language
  • Cross-language information retrieval
  • Elocution
  • Endangered languages
  • Executives--Language
  • Extinct languages
  • Flower language
  • Foreign workers--Language
  • Formal languages
  • Human body and language
  • Imaginary languages
  • Judgment
  • Language and education
  • Linguistic change
  • Linguistics
  • Mass media and language
  • Metal, Words for
  • Mimetic words
  • Motion pictures and language
  • Multilingualism
  • Music and language
  • Native language
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Oratory
  • Parapsychology and language
  • Phonetic spelling
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Racism in language
  • Schizophrenics--Language
  • Semantics
  • Semantics (Philosophy)
  • Shepherds--Language
  • Sign language
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Space and time in language
  • Speech
  • Standard language
  • Statesmen--Language
  • Teachers--Language
  • Tramps--Language
  • Translating and interpreting
  • Translingua script
  • Voice
  • Women--Language
  • Writing
  • Written communication
  • Xenophobia in language

• Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb119353088

• Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

  • http://d-nb.info/gnd/4056449-6

• Earlier Established Forms

  • Languages

• LC Classification

  • P1-P410

• General Notes

  • Here are entered works on language in general, works on the origin and history of language, and surveys of languages. Works dealing with the scientific study of human speech, including phonetics, phonemics, morphology and syntax, are entered under [Linguistics.]

• Example Notes

  • Note under [Linguistics]

• Change Notes

  • 1986-02-11: new
  • 2006-08-01: revised

• Alternate Formats

  • RDF/XML (MADS and SKOS)
  • N-Triples (MADS and SKOS)
  • JSON (MADS/RDF and SKOS/RDF)
  • MADS - RDF/XML
  • MADS - N-Triples
  • MADS/RDF - JSON
  • SKOS - RDF/XML
  • SKOS - N-Triples
  • SKOS - JSON
  • MADS/XML
  • MARC/XML

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