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Linguistic description
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Work of objectively describing language use
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In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community.

Instance of
Academic discipline
branch of linguistics
Subclass of
Linguistics
Different from
American structuralism
Synchronic linguistics
Folk linguistics
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