Intelligence
Publication Date
2024
Faculty Department
Department of World Languages and Cultures
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Intellectual, not intelligence, was the headword in Raymond Williams's Keywords (1976, 1983). In the early twenty-first century, intelligence is the more complex and contested term. The meaning of the word intelligence has changed over the past six centuries in response to social, political, scientific and technological shifts. Since its introduction into English, intelligence has undergone a process of semantic broadening, becoming at once more generalised while also gaining specialised meanings in a variety of contexts from psychology and education to international security and computer science.
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Recommended Citation
Yanacek, Holly. (2024) Intelligence. Critical Quarterly, 66: 101–105. https://doi.org/10.1111/criq.12756.
