[英语学习]语言学第一章.pptVIP

Chapter 1 Introduction 1. What is linguistics? the scientific or systematic study of language. It studies languages in general. Linguistics as a science Generally, a process of linguistic study may be stated as follows: (1) Collect and observe language facts; (2) Make generalizations about the facts; (3) Formulate some hypotheses about the language structure; (4) Check the hypotheses against the observed facts; (5) Develop a theory about how language is constructed. What does “language” mean? (1) The idea of the paper is good, but the language is terrible. specific utterances or express