EL100 LESSON 1

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    • Linguistics
      scientific study of language
    • Modern Linguistics
      adopt different perspectives
    • General or theoretical linguistics

      universal
    • Historical Linguistics
      time
    • Developmental
      children/development
    • Anthropological Linguistics
      culture
    • Psycholinguistics
      behaviour
    • Sociolinguistics
      society
    • Contrastive Linguistics
      difference
    • Comparative Linguistics
      similarities
    • Applied Linguistics
      application
    • Creativity
      very important feature of all natural human languages.
    • Noah Chomsky
      one of the first to speak about this human ability to understand new sentences as part of the creative aspect of language use.
    • Redundancy
      repeatative
    • Systematic
      consist of patterns
    • Ferdinand De Saussure
      known as the father of structuralism
    • Synchronic Linguistics

      studies language at single point of a time
    • Diachronic Linguistics 

      viewpoint + historical
    • 8 Oldest Languanges
      •Tamil •Sanskrit •Egyptian •Hebrew •Greek •Basque •Lithuanian •Farsi
    • Branches of Linguistics
      •General or Theoretical Linguistics
      •Historical Linguistics
      •Computational Linguistics
      •Developmental Linguistics
      •Anthropological Linguistics
      •Psycholinguistics
      •Sociolinguistics
      •Contrastive Linguistics
      •Comparative Linguistics
      •Applied Linguistics
    • Archibald A. Hill
      “An important aim of education is the adjustment of the individual to the world in which he/she has to live, and linguistic knowledge is a help toward that end, the study of the language is one of the best ways in which a narrow belief in the rightness of one’s own ways of doing things, and the wrongness of every way, can be broken down.”
    • Natural languages are also often redundant
    • All languages change
      they may change I different ways depending on social, political and other circumstances
    • Structuralism
      theoretical approach to the analysis of language
    • Ferdinand de Saussure is known as the father of structuralism. In 1916, his (Course in General Linguistics) published
    • Course in General Linguistic
      where main ideas of structuralism were formulated.
    • Linguistics is d escriptive, not p rescriptive
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