精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上简明英语语言学笔记Chapter 1 Introduction What is linguistics?l Definition: the scientific study of language.l A discipline that data and theory stand in a dialectical complementation; that is, a theory without the support of data can hardly claim validity, and data without being explained by some theory remain a muddled mass of things. l The scope of linguistics: General linguistics: study language as a whole Specific aspects: 1) Phonetics: the study of sounds
