linguistics

**naji** · 29-09-2007, 03:23 AM

Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It endeavours to answer the question--what is language and how is represented in the mind? Linguists focus on describing and explaining language and are not concerned with the prescriptive rules of the language . Linguists are not required to know many languages and linguists are not interpreters
The underlying goal of the linguist is to try to discover the universals concerning language. That is, what are the common elements of all languages. The linguist then tries to place these elements in a theoretical framework that will describe all languages and also predict what can not occur in a language
Linguistics is a social science that shares common ground with other social sciences such as psychology, anthropology, sociology and archaeology. It also may influence other disciplines such as english, communication studies and computer science. Linguistics for the most part though can be considered a cognitive science. Along with psychology, philosophy and computer science , linguistics is ultimately concerned with how the human brain functions
There are several different disciplines within linguistics. The fields of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and language acquisition are considered the core fields of study and a firm knowledge of each is necessary in order to tackle more advanced subjects

**Try To Reach** · 30-09-2007, 04:48 AM

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**Odd0Odium** · 14-10-2007, 09:03 PM

I want to add that Linguistics is relatively a new field. It is growing pretty fast nowadays . Scientists are trying to make machines "Talk" as humans do. Many fields in linguistics are examined now. Recent Linguistic researches are in Corpus Linguistics and Psycholinguistics