General linguistics

The synchronous one or also General linguistics, also General linguistics, that is as partial discipline those investigation that characteristics of more natural . It is frequently only called "linguistics" science-internally, what leads to mistakes with the linguistics. Investigation article certain languages are not or Language's groups, but language as system in itself and as means for interhuman communication. It stands in demarcation to appropriate other terms "along" to become to have, for example hand mouldings in place of sounds. Nontheless bearing language linguistics uses of them following linguistics also “.

Language

A natural speech is a "living person", dynamically developing thing, that that Communication, serves the structure of knowledge and the knowledge processing. The linguistics asks for the forms, the language system, and the functions of the language. It tries to find out also, what language for those means. The thing in common and differences of the individual languages and are systematically examined. One of the goals is it, , which apply to all languages. In addition it uses also realizations that . On the other hand is it that Social sciences not far, if it treats the role of the language in the society.

Some basic questions of the research

• How is language developed? What is common to all in form and function?
• How is language used?
• In which relationship do language and thinking stand? Does the native language with its "categories" determine a thinking ("linguistic relativity theory")?
• How can one divide languages?
• How develops and when "die" does a language?
• How is language acquired?
• Which effects have Zweisprachigkeit/Mehrsprachigkeit?

Subsections

Partial disciplines are those

• Theoretical linguistics, the investigation of language as system in itself
  • Ethnolinguistik, the science of culturally specific use of language, also
• Applied linguistics, the disciplines the linguistic theories for the solution of material world problems consult
  • Clinical linguistics, those Diagnostics and of impairments of linguistic communication or the language acquisition in that
  • Forensi linguistics, the kriminologische investigation of linguistic units in that Forensik
  • Right linguistics, the investigation background from right topics to do those with language has into that

Acquaintance Linguist

To the most important scientists belong

• Leonard Bloomfield, joint founder that Linguistic Society OF America
• John Lyons, that that Modality term established
• Edward Sapir, founders of Anthropologi linguistics
• Benjamin Whorf, has with Edward Sapir those Sapir Whorf hypothesis set up

Literature

• Hadumod bus man: Encyclopedia of the linguistics. Kroener, Stuttgart, ISBN 3-520-45202-2.
• David Crystal: The Cambridge Encyclopedia OF LANGUAGE. Cambridge University press, ISBN 3-12-539661-1.
• Angelika left one, Markus Nussbaumer, Paul R. Haven man: Study book linguistics. Niemeyer, Tübingen. ISBN 3-484-31121-5.
• Peter Koch: For what linguistics? In: Florian Keisinger u. A. (Hrsg.): For what geisteswissenschaften? Controversy of arguments for an overdue debate, Frankfurt A. M./New York 2003 ISBN 359337336X
• Peter Matthews: The Concise Oxford Dictionary OF Linguistics. Oxford Paperbacks, August 2005. ISBN 0-19-861050-5.
• Heidrun fur: Linguistics, an introduction. Hoping man & Campe, Hamburg, 2002. ISBN 3-455-10331-6.
• Geoffrey Sampson: Schools OF Linguistics. Hutchinson, London, 1980. ISBN 0-8047-1084-8.
• John Lyons: Introduction to modern linguistics. C.H. Beck, Munich. ISBN 3-406-39465-5.

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• The LINGUIST cunning - The world's largest on-line linguistic resource
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• Introduction to linguistics
• Multimedia linguistics introduction with on-line exercises and glossary
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