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Subject Matter of Linguistics (Notes 2) by Dr. Nazia Suleman
Subject Matter of Linguistics (Notes 2) by Dr. Nazia Suleman
In each period the linguist must consider not only correct speech and flowery
language but all other forms of expression as well. The scope of linguistic
should be;
1) To describe and praise the history of all observable languages
2) To determine the forces that are permanently and universally at work in all
languages (To extract the general laws)
3) To delimit and define itself
Linguistics is very closely related to other sciences that sometimes borrow from
its data, sometimes supply it with data. Linguistics must be carefully
distinguished from ethnography and prehistory where language is used only to
document. Everything in language is basically psychological including its
material and mechanical manifestations such as sound changes. And since
linguistics provides social psychology with such valuable data. So its the part
and parcel of this discipline (science).
considered from different view points, but not linguistics. (Arbor; 🌴🎄 a word
used for Tree in German ) French word "Nu" "Bare" a superficial observe
would be tempted to call the word a concrete linguistic object. Regardless of the
viewpoint that we adopt the linguistic phenomenon always have related sides;
1) Articulated Syllables
2) Sounds Combine with an Idea to form a complex physiological -
psychological unit.
3) Speech has both an individual and social sides.
4) Speech always implies both an established system and an evolution. At every
moment, it is an existing institution and a product of the past.