Lingustics and its definition

Presented By Suwaina Fathima in A.R.sIR CLASS

1. LINGUSTICs : A SCIENCE Suwaina Fathima

2. Good morning

3. lingustics The word linguistic has been derived from Latin word lingua(tongue) and istics ( knowledge and science ) . it is study not only of one particular language but of human languages in general . It attempts to describe and analyze languages .

4. Lingustics – an overview Linguistics is a scientific study of language , and it involves an analysis of language form , language meaning , and language in context.

5. Reason There are some reasons to call Lingustic as a science. Because it has Objectivity, Empiricism, Rationalism and Systematic as other science fields.

6. Objectivity Objectivity is that, “ it considers all languages to be equal ”.For a linguist , there are no primitive ,pure, beautiful ,cultural and sophisticated languages. The objective study of language is hindered by various cultural ,social and historical misconception about certain languages.

7. Empericism (practical knowledge) It relies on observation and experiments, and uses formalized principles and theory capable of formulation . It aims to analyse the data and make generalization about the regularitiesen countered in linguistics phenomenon under study.

8. Systematic Scientific methodology in linguistics As we know that linguistics is scientific study of language. The approach and methodology of linguistics is scientific. like a scientist a linguistic observes his data . Linguist uses by observing simple listening and phonetic transcriptions. Thus it is systematic.

9. Hence.... Hence it is proved that.. Lingustic has most of the qualities of Science. So It is considered as a science.

10.   Some define  linguistics   as the  scientific study of language .  Following are some of the branches of linguistics . Phonetics, Semantics and Grammar.

11. Phonetics Linguists traditionally analyse human language by observing an interplay between sound and meaning. Phonetics is the study of speech and non-speech sounds.

12. Semantics The study of semantics deals with how situational context influences the production of meaning .

13. Grammar Grammar is a system of rules which governs the production and use of utterances in a given language.

14. - Phonetics and phonology. It deals with what sounds people can make and which ones they can and do distinguish. - Psycholinguistics , neuro -linguistics and child language acquisition. It deals with How does human brain process language. This is almost purely experimental science.

15. Why science? In linguistics, scientific method is used regularly across most subfields. Like science, it analyses and studies in depth of language.

16. Modern linguists approach their work with a scientific perspective, although they use methods that used to be thought of as solely an academic discipline of the humanities.