LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

LANGUAGE IS:
1. MYSTERIOUS
  1. ESSENTIAL
    1. PRACTICAL
      1. CENTRAL TO HUMAN LIFE
        DISTINCTIVE
        NOT PECULIARITY OF ONE CULTURE
        A TALENT
        NOT A DESIGN
        HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM
LINGUISTIC STUDIES:
1. 1. HOW LANGUAGE WORKS
  1. GRAMMAR
    1. WORDS
    2. RULES
      1. SYNTAX
      2. MORPHOLOGY
      3. PHONOLOGY
    3. INTERFACES
  2. PHONOLOGY
  3. SEMANTICS
  4. PRAGMATICS
2. 2. HOW IT IS PROCESSED
3. 3. HOW IT IS ACQUIRED (CHOMSKY)
4. 4. HOW IT IS COMPUTED
  1. LINGUISTICS IS NECESSARY FOR:
    1. PROGRAMMING COMPUTERS
    2. TREATING LANGUAGE DISSABILITIES
    3. TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
    4. UNDERSTAND LAW, POLITICS AND LITERATURE
LANGUAGE IS NOT
1. WRITTEN LAGUAGE
2. PROPPER GRAMMAR
  1. DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR (HOW PEOPLE SPEAK)
  2. PRESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR (HOW PEOPLE SHOULD SPEAJ
3. THOUGHT
  1. 1. BABIES COMMUNICATE WITHOUT SPEECH
  2. 2. TYPES OF THINKING GO ON WITHOUT LANGUAGE
  3. 3. WE USE TACIT KNOWLEDGE TO UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE COMBINES
1. THOUGHT
2. SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
3. HUMAN EVOLUTION
4. HUMAN BIOLOGY

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