[1] Linguistics is a science. Linguists investigate how people acquire language-related knowledge, how this knowledge interacts with other cognitive processes, how it changes between speakers and geographic regions, and how language knowledge is modeled computationally.
They study how to represent the structure of various aspects of language, such as sound or meaning, how to theoretically explain different language types, and how different components of language influence each other. Linguists develop and test scientific hypotheses. Many linguists advocate the use of statistical analysis, mathematics, and logical formalism to explain the language models they observe.
[2] Linguistics is a tool, the purpose of using which is to communicate. Just like other sciences, it focuses on plenty of fundamental facts, and proposes scientific hypotheses or theories to explain these facts. When we first come into contact with a language, we can quickly understand the structure, grammar, and pronunciation of the language through linguistic knowledge to communicate with others. Compared with the beautiful literary works themselves, the inherent beauty of the rules of each word, and their wonderful evolution from meaning to sound, is even more amazing.
[3] Language is a unique way of communication for humans. It reflects the highly evolved mental abilities of human beings on the biological or psychological level, and reflects the progress of human civilization on the level. Linguistics is to study the core instinct of human language ability, through the analysis and research of spoken language, written language and even sign language, and then understand the nature of human beings. During studying I even found the connection between linguistics and other science subjects, for instance, many phenomenon that are related to difference between regions can be explained by geographic knowledge, and the process of finding the language rules always needs a lot of statistics.
Original link: https://fiona-f-ang.github.io/2021/04/15/New understandings of linguistics developed in the process of learning IOL/
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