Linguistics

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(idea) by jwscott (?) (print)   (I like it!) 1 C! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:39:31
The first question a Linguistics major gets asked when s/he tells someone his/her major is, "How many languages do you speak?" My personal response is "none." Linguistics is a very broad concept involving every aspect of language in general, including cognitive, phonetic, phonemic, syntax, semantics, acquisition, and many other things...Linguistics, like programming and Philosophy, is much better when alcohol is involved, especially Guiness.
(idea) by blahedo (?) (print)   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 8:39:31
Linguistics... has many facets. You can study phonology or syntax or semantics or any number of other subfields. It's all about understanding how language works; of course, like psychology and sociology and the other social sciences, it's hard to tell for sure, so you get people spouting random things, such as Noam Chomsky, who is to linguistics as Freud was to psychology (take that as you will).
(idea) by dmd (3.1 wk) (print)   (I like it!) 4 C!s Thu Dec 14 2000 at 3:39:30
Repository of nodes concerning the far-flung reaches of the science of linguistics. Add on as you create.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:53:55

Lin*guis"tics (?), n. [Cf. F. linguistique.]

The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.

 

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