DeFiNiTiOnS Of lInGuIsTiC

Definitions of linguistic

1.    Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics#cite_note-0)

2.    Linguistis is the study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, and pragmatics.

(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/linguistics)

3.    "Linguistics will have to recognize laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another."

(Ferdinand de Saussure, Troisième Cours de Linguistique Générale, 1910-1911)

(http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/linguisticsterm.htm)

4.    Aims of Linguistics

"[Linguistics] has a twofold aim: to uncover general principles underlying human language, and to provide reliable descriptions of individual languages."

(Jean Atchison, in The Oxford Companion to the English Language, ed. Tom McArthur, 1992)

(http://grammar.about.com/od/il/g/linguisticsterm.htm)

5.    The Definition of Linguistics.

Linguistics is study of language.

Linguistics is concerned with human language as a universal and recognizable part of human behavior and of the human abilities. Raja T. Nasr (1984).

(http://hadirukiyah.blogspot.com/2009/07/definition-and-branches-of-linguistics.html)

6.    Linguistics is competence as being a persons potential to speak a language, and his or her linguistics performance as the realization of that potential. Monica Crabtree & Joyce Powers (1994).

(http://hadirukiyah.blogspot.com/2009/07/definition-and-branches-of-linguistics.html)

7.    General linguistic generally describes the concepts and categories of a particular language or among all language. It also provides analyzed theory of the language.

(http://hadirukiyah.blogspot.com/2009/07/definition-and-branches-of-linguistics.html)

8.    Definition of LINGUISTICS

the study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of language.

(http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/linguistics?show=0&t=1316602223)