精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上1 .An Introduction to Linguistics and language1. What is Linguistics? Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It endeavors to answer the question-what is language and how is represented in the mind? Linguists focus on describing and explaining language and are not concerned with the prescriptive rules of the language.2. Basic criteria for doing Linguistics1. Objectivity 2. Explicitness 3. Rigorousness 4. Adequacy3. The Scope of Linguistics(1) General
