Presented By Suwaina Fathima in A.R.sIR CLASS

1. LINGUSTICS : A SCIENCE
SUWAINA FATHIMA

2. Good morning

3. LINGUSTICS
• The word linguistic has been derived from Latin word
lingua(tongue) and istics ( knowledge and science).
• it is study not only of one particular language but of
human languages in general.
• It attempts to describe and analyze languages .

4. LINGUSTICS – AN OVERVIEW
Linguistics is a scientific study of language, and
it involves an analysis of language form,
language meaning, and language in context.

5. REASON
• There are some reasons to call Lingustic
as a science. Because it has Objectivity,
Empiricism, Rationalism and Systematic as
other science fields.

6. OBJECTIVITY
• Objectivity is that, “it considers all languages to be equal ”.For a
linguist , there are no primitive ,pure, beautiful ,cultural and
sophisticated languages.
• The objective study of language is hindered by various cultural
,social and historical misconception about certain languages.

7. EMPERICISM (PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE)
• It relies on observation and experiments, and uses
formalized principles and theory capable of formulation.
• It aims to analyse the data and make generalization about
the regularitiesen countered in linguistics phenomenon
under study.

8. SYSTEMATIC
• Scientific methodology in linguistics As we know that
linguistics is scientific study of language.
• The approach and methodology of linguistics is scientific.
like a scientist a linguistic observes his data.
• Linguist uses by observing simple listening and phonetic
transcriptions. Thus it is systematic.

9. HENCE....
•Hence it is proved that.. Lingustic has most of the
qualities of Science. So It is considered as a science.

10. • Some define linguistics as the scientific study of
language.
•Following are some of the branches of
linguistics.
•Phonetics, Semantics and Grammar.

11. PHONETICS
Linguists traditionally analyse human language by
observing an interplay between sound and meaning.
Phonetics is the study of speech and non-speech
sounds.

12. SEMANTICS
The study of semantics deals with how situational context
influences the production of meaning.

13. GRAMMAR
Grammar is a system of rules which governs the
production and use of utterances in a given language.

14. • - Phonetics and phonology. It deals with what sounds people can
make and which ones they can and do distinguish.
• - Psycholinguistics, neuro-linguistics and child language
acquisition. It deals with How does human brain process language.
This is almost purely experimental science.

15. WHY SCIENCE?
•In linguistics, scientific method is used
regularly across most subfields.
•Like science, it analyses and studies in
depth of language.

16. Modern linguists approach their work with a scientific
perspective, although they use methods that used to be
thought of as solely an academic discipline of the
humanities.