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LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS

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