Category:Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, its structure, and use. It is a broad field that covers a wide range of topics, including the study of language as a system of signs, the structure and rules of grammar, the history and evolution of languages, and the social and cultural aspects of language use.
Linguistics draws on a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, psychology, sociology, and philosophy, and it is a highly interdisciplinary field. It involves the study of both written and spoken language, and it encompasses a wide range of languages, from well-known languages like English and Spanish to lesser-known languages from around the world.
The study of linguistics is concerned with questions such as: how is language structured, how is meaning conveyed, how does language change over time, and what is the relationship between language and society? Linguists use a variety of methods, including descriptive and comparative studies, experimental research, and computational methods, to answer these questions.
Linguistics is important because language is a fundamental aspect of human experience and a crucial component of culture, identity, and communication. By studying language, linguists can gain insights into the nature of human cognition, the workings of the mind, and the social and cultural forces that shape language and influence its use.
The study of linguistics is relevant for a wide range of careers, including teaching, journalism, publishing, advertising, marketing, law, psychology, and translation and interpretation. It is also an important foundation for fields like computer science, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.
Subcategories
This category has the following 14 subcategories, out of 14 total.
Pages in category "Linguistics"
The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total.
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- A Reflection on Development of Indigenous Languages for Knowledge Creation and Sharing in a Globalising World: A Case of Esan Language, Nigeria
- A Review Paper on ELT Articles Conducted on EFL Teachers’ Perceptions, Practices and Challenges towards Communicative Language Teaching
- An Exploration of the Sub-Register of Chemical Engineering Research Papers Published in English
- Aspectuo-Temporal Underspecification in Anindilyakwa: Descriptive, Theoretical, Typological and Quantitative Issues
- Automatic Dialect Adaptation in Finnish and its Effect on Perceived Creativity
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- Improving the Translation Environment for Professional Translators
- Interactive Hesitation Synthesis and Its Evaluation
- Is national mental sport ability a sign of intelligence? An analysis of the top players of 12 mental sports
- Italian Throughout Seven Centuries of Literature: Deep Language Statistics And Their Relationship With Miller’s 7∓2 Law and Short−Term Memory
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- Linear Lengthening in Iwaidja: An Event-Quantifying Intonation at the Phonology to Semantics/Pragmatics Interface
- Linguistic Missing Links: Instruction in Decrypting, Translating and Transliterating the Only Document Known to Use Both Proto-Romance Language and Proto-Italic Symbols for Its Writing System
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- The Effectiveness of Hymesˊ Ethnography of Communication Theory to Teach English Learnersˊ Reading Comprehension Ability: A Discoursal Approach
- The Entropy of Words—Learnability and Expressivity across More Than 1000 Languages
- The expressive function of the ni que insubordinate construction in Spanish
- The Future of Deception: Machine-Generated and Manipulated Images, Video, and Audio?
- The Impact of Translation Equivalence on Tunisian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and Word-Learnability
- The Metonymic Readings of the Greek Deictic Adverbs εδώ (Here) and εκεί (There) in Politics: A Cognitive Approach
- The Rise of English as the Language for Academic Publication: On Equity, Disadvantage and ‘Non-Nativeness’ as a Red Herring
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