[Corpora-List] Do you think LINGUISTICS is SCIENCE or ARTS?

[Gill Philip]

dear Corpus colleagues,

Just while we're off-topic, remember that Cage's 4'33" *proves* that
music is music even when there's no sound and no rhythm but only the
act of performance.

Anyway, Yuri's question is interesting.
I suppose the anwer depends on what you consider linguistics and its
object of study to be.

If, like many on this list, you use data samples to study language and
meaning empirically, then 'linguistics' is essentially a social
science
If you prefer to concentrate on language in your mind, then
'linguistics' is a form of philosophy or logic which makes it firmly
rooted in the humanities
And if you're using linguistic data but not doing linguistic analysis
or contributing to the study of language, you're probably doing a form
of science... but some might argue that you're not doing linguistics
either

Gill


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Dr. Gill Philip
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Università degli Studi di Bologna
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Italy

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