Concepts
1. Linguistics:
Is the scientific study of language. (Lyons, p. 1)
2.
Generative semantics: A description of a language emphasizing a semantic
deep structured that is logical in form that provides syntactic structure.
(Webster, p. 521)
3. Universal
grammar: The study of general principles believed to underlie the
grammatical phenomena of all languages. Principles viewed as a part of an
innate human capacity for learning a language. (Webster, p. 1369)
4. Descriptive
linguistics: Provide the data which confirms or refutes the prepositions
and theories but forward in general linguistics. (Lyons, p. 34)
5. Historical
linguistics: It studies the historical development of the language. (Lyons,
p. 35)
6. Generative
grammar: A description in the form of a set of rules for producing the
grammatical sentences of a language. (Webster, p. 521)
7. Ethnographic
Linguistics: It holds that language and social life are mutually shaping,
and that close analysis of situated language use can provide both fundamental
and distinctive insights into the mechanisms and dynamics of social and
cultural production in everyday activity.
8. Sociolinguistics:
It is the study of language considering the context where it is used
considering factors as social class, age, sex, educational level, cultural
norms, place where the conversation is held. (Lyons, p. 266).
Bibliography
- Lyons, John. Language and
linguistics. Cambridge, Reino
Unido: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
- Linguistic
Ethnography. http://uklef.net/linguisticethnography.html
- Merriam Webster´s Collegiate
Dictionary, 11th
edition.
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