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What is Linguistics?

According to the UB College of Arts and Sciences, linguistics is the scientific study of language and its focus is the systematic investigation of the properties of particular languages as well as the characteristics of the language in general.

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I defined here the integration of linguistics and education. I also enumerated here why educators should study linguistics.

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My insights about the significance of linguistics in education connected to the TED Talk entitled How Language Shapes The Way We Think by Lera Boroditsky.

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Some of the notable lines from the video:

1. "We're able to transmit knowledge across minds."
2. "According to Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, to have a second language is to have a second soul."
3. "Language guides our reasoning about events."
4. "Language can have big, deep, early, and broad effects. Most importantly, it can shape things that have personal weight to us."
5. "The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how flexible the human mind is."

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How Language Shapes the Way We Think | Lera Boroditsky | TED

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My Definition of Linguistics

Language has been with us since day one. We encounter and utilize it in our conscious and subconscious states. Language is what I am doing right now!

We will use language for the rest of our lives — from our coos when we are babies to our famous last words when we are grown-ups.

We can observe and study how language works like any other natural phenomenon, and that is Linguistics.

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Quote about Linguistics

“Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.”

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"Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you."
― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything

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"Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you."

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Quote about Linguistics

“Often it’s not we who shape words, but the words we use that shape us.”

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Quote about Linguistics

“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”

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Quote about Linguistics

“When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it."