LL-L "Linguistics" 2006.02.11 (06) [E]

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   L O W L A N D S - L * 11 February 2006 * Volume 06
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I tend to think of linguists as scientists, as opposed to language
learners and enthusiasts who (unless they're also linguists) aren't.


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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Linguistics

Sandy,

Further on this thread ...

You wrote:

> I tend to think of linguists as scientists, as opposed to language
> learners and enthusiasts who (unless they're also linguists) aren't.

And I replied:

> Sandy, your definition of linguistics pretty much tallies with the now 
> most
> current one (probably having started in the 1960s).

Let me hasten to add that this may be seen by some as overly generalized. 
"Linguistics" is a catch-all label for many disciplines.  Much of this is 
covered in Wikipedia's fair overview, at least one I recommend as an 
introduction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics

I am under the impression that what you and I where talking about here was 
the broad field of "grammar" (syntax, morphology, phonology and their 
generation and universals), and we might add areas such as phonetics 
(intimately linked with speech and hearing science).

Some seem to feel that linguistic areas such as sociolinguistics, 
anthropological linguistics, semantics, philology and applied linguistics 
are "soft sciences," or they fall into social sciences and humanities.  This 
depends on the way people define "science," I guess.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron 

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