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What is Linguistics?

What is Linguistics?.

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What is Linguistics?

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  1. What is Linguistics?

  2. The study of human language: how it’s produced, how it’s understood, what its properties are, how it’s used, how it’s acquired, how it changes over time, how it’s represented in the brain, how its used differently amongst certain groups of people, variations between languages, and more.

  3. OR

  4. Is it a science?

  5. Tools of Linguistics

  6. Other branches include: psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and language acquisition, semiotics, and literary linguistics

  7. Misconceptions about Language and Linguistics • Dr. Soandso is a linguist so he must know like 10 languages. • I speak English really well, so I already know everything about linguistics, just maybe not the fancy names for stuff. • You’re taking linguistics? I gotta speak properly, then!

  8. Descriptive VS. Prescriptive

  9. to close • Do linguistics generally study spoken language or written language? • Is linguistics a science? • Name one tool linguists use to study language. • What is phonetics concerned with? • Is linguistics primarily descriptive or prescriptive? • Fun survey question: How many people think animals have language?

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