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Linguistics week 2 What do linguists do? What is language? In your free time Look at the diagram again, and try to understand it. And take a look at 分支學科 On this website /wiki/Wikipedia:%E8%AF%AD%E8%A8%80%E5%AD%A6%E9%A6%96%E9%A1%B5 And read about Animal “Languages” in Chapter 1 of your book. What do linguists do? They don’t necessarily “learn languages” Linguist and 語言學 are confusing terms They are often interested in the structure of languages. They might specialize in one language, or a group of languages compare different languages study features shared by all languages Many linguists s