Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.
Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language.
Grammar is the analysis of language.
In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.
Not that I wish by any means to deny, that the mental life of individuals and peoples is also in conformity with law, as is the object of philosophical, philological, historical, moral, and social sciences to establish.
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
I have an interest in languages and make an effort to learn.
I find it hugely exciting to be dealing with another writer's language.
