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Subject Matter of Linguistics (Manifestation of Human Speech) :-

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).

Physiology of Sounds and Linguistics


It includes all about the production of sounds and all other.
The object of Linguistics
Other sciences work with objects that are given in advance and that can then be

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.

The object of Linguistics appears to us as a confused mass of heterogeneous and


unrelated things. Either procedure opens the door to several sciences
psychology, anthropology, normative grammar, and philology which are
different from linguistics but which might claim speech in view of the faulty
method of Linguistics as one of their objects.

But what is language?


Langue and Language
Language is a part of langue (but language is not a langue).
Language is human speech of which it is only a definite part. It is both a social
product of the faculty of speech and a collection of necessary conventions that
have been adopted by a social body to permit individuals to exercise that faculty
(Capability). Speech is many-sided an heterogeneous. It belongs to individuals
and to society. Langue is a boundary that tells you what to do and what not,
where to do and where not. Langue is not in control of anybody while language
is. It is related to fixed set of rules lying in our minds.
Language is a self contained whole and a principle of classification. No one can
stop or control the sound apparatus.

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