RHETOR 103B Chapter 4: R103B Reading 1.31.2017 (1)
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Linguistics passed through 3 stages (1) grammar (2) philology (3) comparative methodology between languages comparative rhilology . In 1870 scholars began to seek out the principles that govern the life of languages. Linguistics owes origin to the study of the romance and germanic languages. Then new school formed by the neogrammarians. Subject matter of linguistics comprises all manifestations of human speech. Scope of linguistics (1) describe and trace history of all languages (2) determine forces permanently and universally at work in all languages (3) delimit and define itself. Use of linguistics: important to general culture. Task of linguist to condemn and dispel paradoxical consequences. Both a social product of the faculty of speech and a collection of necessary conventions that have been adopted by a social body to permit individuals to exercise that faculty. Self contained whole and a principle of classification.
