Linguistics as science
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Linguistics is the scientific study of language through observation and experimentation. As an empirical science, linguistics uses observation to develop theories and hypotheses about language. It is also a social science that studies language as it exists and evolves within human societies in a systematic and rational way based on facts learned through empirical study. Linguistics aims to understand language as both a natural and social phenomenon.
Linguistics as science
- 2. SCIENCE
- 3. Science • It is the study of the natural world based on facts learned through observation and experiment. (Merriam Webster) • it is the field of study concerned with discovering and describing the world around us by observing and experimenting.(vocabulary.com)
- 4. Linguist is a person who studies linguistics
- 5. Language is both an empirical and a social science.