Linguistics is the scientific study of human language . Wikipedia has an article about: Linguistics Sourced It’s as if we’re higher apes who had a language faculty inserted. Noam Chomsky [1] Remember the socialist credo: Control the vocabulary and...
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist. Theoretical (or general) linguistics encompasses a number of sub-fields, such as the study of language...
Tracks for Language "SO WHAT in the hell did Noam Chomsky think about language anyway?" a flustered student asked me last week in an introductory linguistics course at UC Berkeley. "His politics I can handle, but this syntax stuff is way out there."...
L. Kirk Hagen's "Creationism's Expanding Universe" (Vol. 10, No. 3) is an excellent heads-up to a disturbing trend among creationists towards publishing in the humanities and social sciences to sneak their agenda into the public school curriculum. As a student of linguistics, I was...
Even the American Dialect Society knows how risky home mortgages are these days. The group of wordsmiths chose "subprime" as 2007's Word of the Year at its annual convention Friday."'Subprime' has been around with bankers for awhile, but now everyone is talking about 'subprime,'" said...
Lawmakers who say the military has kicked out 58 Arabic language experts because they were gay want the Pentagon to explain how it can afford to let the valuable specialists go.Seizing on the latest discharge, involving three specialists, House members wrote the House Armed Services...
