Introduction to Linguistic

1. English language and
Literature
What is Linguistics?
ALEESHA ZAHID ABBAS

2. What is Linguistics
 Key points:
 What is Linguistics?
 What is Language?
 Why linguistics is scientific study?
 Animals and Human Language

3. What is Linguistics?
 Study of Language
 Structure of Language (sounds & meanings)
 How language is used
 Variations in language

4. What is Language?
 Language—more specifically human language—refers to the grammar and other
rules and norms that allow humans to make utterances and sounds in a way that
others can understand.
 Language is “what make us humans”.

5. WHY LINGUISTICS IS SCIENTIFIC STUDY?
 Scientists do their research on any natural phenomenon by following different
steps of a scientific method
 Linguists study language on different levels of that particular language.
i.e., Phonetics & Phonology, Syntax, Morphology, Semantics, Pragmatics, etc.

6. Comparison between Animal communication
and Human Language
Human Language
 Informative and Communicative
 Reflexivity
 Displacement (Talk about Past,
Present, Future)
 Infinite Vocabulary
 Effect of Environment
 Complex
Animal communication
 Informative and Communicative
 No reflexivity
 Only communicate about now
 Finite (e.g. Bee Dance, sounds of
animals like meow, moo etc.)
 No effect of Environment
 Simple

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