新编简明英语语言学知识点汇总1 Introduction1.1 What is linguistics?Scientific study of language.Interpretation:try to answer the basic questions and probe into various problems related to language;linguistics studies not any particular language but language in general;scientific study because based on systematic investigation of linguistic data.1.1.2 The scope of linguisticsThe study of language as a whole is often called general linguistic.phoneticsStudy the sounds used in linguistic
