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Bookmark or Share- What is Linguistics? - Department of Linguistics - UCLALinguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguists (experts in linguistics) work on specific languages, but their primary goal is to understand the nature of language in general by asking questions such as: What distinguishes human language from other animal communication systems?
- LSA - Linguistic Society of AmericaLSA. Who We Are. LSA is a scholarly society for linguists and other interested individuals. LSA members include students, faculty, and linguists working in government, non-profit organizations, and industry. The mission of LSA is to advance the scientific study of language.
- What is Linguistics? - University of California, Santa CruzWhat is Linguistics? PhD Students Research Poster (photo by mjzimmer) Each human language is a complex of knowledge and abilities enabling speakers of the language to communicate with each other, to express ideas, hypotheses, emotions, desires, and all the other things that need expressing.
- Linguistics - WikipediaLinguistics is the scientific study of language. [1] [2] [3] Linguistics is based on a theoretical as well as a descriptive study of language and is also interlinked with the applied fields of language studies and language learning, which entails the study of specific languages.
- Linguistics | Definition, Examples, Science | BritannicaLinguistics, the scientific study of language. The word was first used in the middle of the 19th century to emphasize the difference between a newer approach to the study of language that was then developing and the more traditional approach of philology.
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