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| pol·y·sys·tem·i·cism [ pòllee sístəmi sìzzəm ] |
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analytic approach to language study: an analytic approach to the study of language based on the view that a single system of categories cannot account for all the various patterns found in language use. Polysystemicism is associated mainly with the work of the British linguist John Rupert Firth (1890-1960).
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