Programs and Areas

Language and Linguistics Area

Nothing characterizes the nature of humans more than the ability to use languge. In linguistics, one studies languages not to read, write, or speak them, but to understand how they work, how they change, how children learn them, and how they are used. Concern for the role of language in human life makes linguistics a humanistic discipline. But since linguistics is concerned with the systematic explanation of facts about language, it is also a science.

Web Resources

• www.linguistlist.org The Linguist list, the major Web source on linguistics.
• www.lsadc.org Linguistics Society of America.
• www.aaal.org The American Association for Applied Linguistics.
• www.americandialect.org The American Dialect Society.
• www.cal.org The Center for Applied Linguistics.
• www.une.edu.au/langnet Language Varieties Web site.

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