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LINGUISTICS AND IT ’ S FIELDS

LINGUISTICS AND IT ’ S FIELDS. I love being on top!. LI 2013 Nathalie F. Martin. linguistics. Table of Content. At the end of this chapter you will know: Linguistics Fields of linguistics: Descriptive linguistics Theoretical linguistics Applied linguistics Language:

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LINGUISTICS AND IT ’ S FIELDS

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  1. LINGUISTICS AND IT’S FIELDS I love being on top! LI 2013 Nathalie F. Martin linguistics

  2. Table of Content At the end of this chapter you will know: • Linguistics • Fields of linguistics: • Descriptive linguistics • Theoretical linguistics • Applied linguistics • Language: • dialects, pidgins, creoles

  3. Battle of the Linguists

  4. Review:Language, Languages and Speech

  5. Review: Grammar What do wemean by: • Generality • Parity • Universality • Mutability • Inaccessibility

  6. HOMEWORK: Possible words in English • Which of the followingforms are possible words of English? • Mbood • Frall • Coofp • Ktleem • Sproke • Flube • Wordms • Bsarn Exercise # 3 (O’Grady, p. 13)

  7. UP FOR A CHALLENGE ? • The Fields of Linguistics: Try to find ways in which linguistics could be useful for your field of study (or even for your own personal interest).

  8. Perspectives • Describe this object: • Write on a piece of paper. • You have all given different descriptions since you looked at it in a different perspective. • The same can be said about language !

  9. Mise en situation

  10. Perspectives • The same can be said about language … • One « object », in other words « language », but different perspectives …

  11. Perspective Grammar • Grammar: • Panini • 1st grammar • Sanskrit (4th century BC) • To preserve sacred writings • Greek • Latin and French • And today …

  12. The earlydays of the study of language • Philology (anthropology through ancient writings) - Objet: ancient civilisations • Historical linguistics - Objet: language(s) and it’s/their evolution • Comparative linguistics: - Objet: comparison BETWEEN languages

  13. Comparative linguistics Comparative Linguistics (examples: languages): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_method

  14. Comparative linguistics Comparative Linguistics (examples: French dialects): • Picard : • CHAT: « ka » rather than « sha » (chat : ch'cat [ka]), • MERCI: [ke] / [ki] > [che] / chi (ex : merchi). • BOIS: [ei] > [oi] > [oe] > [o] (le bois : ch'bos) • Francian : • BOIS: [ei] > [oi] > [we] > [wa] : le bois • MERCI: [ki] > [si] (merci) Dialects of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries,

  15. Linguistics The modern study of language

  16. What Is Linguistics? • Ferdinand de Saussure : • Founder of modern linguistics. • His students published his course notes in 1916. • Cours de linguistique générale. • Language: Code & social institution

  17. What Is Linguistics? • “The scientificstudy of humanlanguage.” • Scientific study of language, covering the structure (morphology and syntax; see grammar), sounds (phonology, phonetics), and meaning (semantics), as well as the history of the relations of languages to each other and the cultural place of language in human behavior.

  18. Theoretical Linguistics • Theoretical linguistics • Phonetics • Phonology • Morphology • Syntax • Semantics • Pragmatics

  19. Applied Linguistics • Descriptive linguistics Anthropological linguisticsComparative linguisticsHistorical linguisticsEtymology · PhoneticsSociolinguistics • Computational linguisticsForensic linguisticsLanguage acquisitionLanguage assessmentLanguage developmentLanguage educationLinguistic prescriptionLinguistic anthropologyNeurolinguisticsPsycholinguisticsStylistics

  20. "Fields of Linguistics" Files • Read the information on each of these fields of linguistics. • Fill out this information: • Name of field • Short definition • What other field(s) is it linked to • Example • Other information • Pass along to next team … • The next team will: • Read the information contained in the file and make necessary corrections. • Give it back to the initial group, who will get ready to present the information to the class.

  21. Fields of LINGUISTICS Sociolinguistics

  22. Fields of LINGUISTICS Ethnolinguistics Benjamin Lee Whorf

  23. Fields of LINGUISTICS Dialectology Atlas linguistique de la Basse-Bretagne (sud-ouest de la France)

  24. Fields of LINGUISTICS Psycholinguistics

  25. Fields of LINGUISTICS Lexicography

  26. Fields of LINGUISTICS Language planning

  27. Fields of LINGUISTICS Neurolinguistics

  28. Fields of LINGUISTICS FORENSIC LINGUISTICS: • The use of linguistic techniques to investigate crimes in which language data constitute part of the evidence • Ex: In 1950 Timothy Evans was hanged for a murder, but then granted a posthumous pardon in 1966.

  29. UP FOR A CHALLENGE !!! How canlinguisticsbeuseful to you in yourfield of study (or even for yourownpersonalinterest).

  30. Explain What do I mean by this adaptation of this cartoon? I love being on top! linguistics

  31. For Next Class • What we will see: • Homework: • Reading: • Reminder:

  32. Have a niceday!Godblessyou!“Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy, to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.” (Jud 1:24-25 )

  33. Matériel nécessaire • Ce dont j’ai besoin pour ce cours: • Photocopies : • Affiches : • Livres : • Autres :

  34. Contemporary Linguistics Analysis: p. 7. Mise en situation

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