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Dear all<br>
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In France, linguistics is known as "sciences du langage".<br>
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Like most respondants, I'm not convinced by Yuri's original reasoning;
some linguists may have a slight inferiority complex compared to the
"hard" sciences, but I would hope that what we do is still scientific
(as opposed to purely artistic, I suppose).<br>
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And if we want to be snobs in turn, what about literature? I have a
colleague in English literature who invariably asks candidates at
interview what "scientific tools" they use.<br>
<br>
alex<br>
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Le 23/03/2010 09:02, Yuri Tambovtsev a écrit :
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Dear Corpora colleagues, Do you
think LINGUISTICS is SCIENCE or ARTS? I think the discussion about
linguistics using either the scientific or artistic methods, is quite
interesting. Really, is it ARTS (the Humanities) or Science. If we
divide this man activity into Sciences and Arts, then linguistics for
the exception of phonetics is Arts. Can linguistics reconstruct some
parent language? We know that all the Romance languages have the parent
language, i.e. Latin. But can linguists reconstruct Latin on the basis
of Italian, Spanish, French and other Romance languages? The answer is
NO. If linguistics had been SCience, then it would have been possible.
But it is ARTS, thus it is impossible. Or am I mistaken? Looking
forward to hearing from you either directly <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</a> or via the net. Be
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