bathmology

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

Noun

  1. The science/study of the interplay of "degrees" - or, levels of linguistic self-referentiality - in discourse
    • 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. - 1975,...
    • 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. - 2006, Philippe Roger,...
    • When it addresses itself distinctly to the Young-Girl, the Spectacle is not above a bit of bathmology. - 2012, Tiqqun (Collective), Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, →ISBN, page 27: