imagology

imagology

English

Etymology

From Latin imago (“image”) +‎ -logy.[1]

Noun

imagology (countable and uncountable, plural imagologies)

1. (social sciences) The study of cultural stereotypes as presented in literature etc.
   • 2016, Reingard M. Nischik, “On Imagology, Canadian-US Relations, and Popular Culture: National Images and Border Crossings in Margaret Atwood’s Works”, in Comparative North American Studies, page 93:

     Applied to American Studies, imagology—the term derives from Latin “imago”/image—asks not how Americans themselves see America, but how other cultures view the United States. In other words, what is the image of the United States as seen in literatures from outside the United States?

Derived terms

• imagological

Translations

Russian: имагология f (imagologija)

Swedish: imagologi c

See also

• imageology

References

1. Reingard M. Nischik, Comparative North American Studies: Transnational Approaches to American and Canadian Literature and Culture, Springer, 2016, p. 93.