GEN102 – What is Linguistics (not)?

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1. No, thank you very much. I was looking for a book to get started. I shall get the David Crystal one and hope it will lead me to others.

2. what is the study if writing system

3. Mrc bcq pour cette explication super

4. Linguistics is indeed a captivating enrichment of my life. May I note that your introduction on this topic was both immaculate and overwhelming! Indubitably, you put much effort on providing a terrific overview on this fascinating field of work. Thank you for sharing this video!

5. Prof, I would like appreciate explanation of corpus linguistics.

6. "Enjoy the fascination of language study and linguistics". Thank you so much for the interesting video and for sharing your fascination with us, who are also fascinated by linguistics!

7. I have never seen someone making things much clearer as you do . Big thanks to you 🙂

8. Regarding "Psycho-linguistics":

   Great to find this channel! I have an interest in, and some education in, linguistics.

   I also have a B.A. in psychology from 1971 (and later a Masters in computer science). Speaking of what linguistics is not, I learned that the one thing that psychology is not is the study of the mind, but rather the study of behavior, which can be observed and measured.

   By the way, I thought your exposition was very accurate, but might still be a bit baffling to a neophyte. A few quick examples might have helped.

9. dear sir, my age is 42-I am commerce graduate as well as, I have diploma in linguistics. Plus A2 German certificate. My question is may I get admission in Master of linguistics in German universities. Sir, as well as if yes, please send me some universities detail in this regard. Thanks a lot

10. Are you seriously prescribing language one minute into the topic "What is Linguistics (not)?". Let me ask you: what the fuck do you think you're doing?

11. Thank u ?

12. I have a question I hope you could help me.
    Why do the structuralists admit one level of linguistic analysis "surface structure"?

13. Excellent. I 'd like to have a final list of what linguistics is not and what linguistics actually is. At the end of the video. Thanks.

14. You 7 and odd minutes of introduction will take years to understand. But that is just an indication of the insight yo managed to pack into 7 minutes. Thank you!

15. Lol you make my classes boring as fuck

16. what is the role of linguistics in police department ?

17. You should watch this on 1.25 speed – much better

18. I think any introduction to linguistics should tell the reader/listener one important fact…although the diagram suggests that branches of linguistics fit into neat categories (semantics, pragmatics etc.) nothing could be more misleading. It is very disappointing to discover that linguistics is a broken science and its researchers carry on in their respective fields without the least concern for resolving the fundamental ways they see language. It is not a science at all , just a bunch of intuitions that form suppositions from which descriptions and their operations follow. These are some of the fields of linguistics – Cognitive Linguistics (which collapses the distinction between syntax, morphology and semantics and has several branches of grammar construction grammars associated with it) that says we learn language through usage and that language and our world cannot be separated, Corpus Linguistics, context independent linguistics which believe language can be an object of study independent of our world, like Dependency grammar that uses a head word from which all others are connected, or constituency grammars which starts with a sentence as an object under which its parts follow. People who follow Chomskian linguistics seem to think they are the ones doing linguistics and youtube is full of their lessons and they do not even pause to warn listeners that this is just one – and very contentious – way of doing it. What they are doing could be real or it could be nonsense and nobody cares the slightest. Here is the truth for the non-linguist like myself, who teaches language and gets so tired of reading and inquiring and hearing the 'science' word. It seems to me that it is closer to religion or the occult at this stage and will remain so until people honestly look at each other in the eye and say, 'Come on, what do we agree about?' The business just rolls on in the meantime.

19. What are linguistics.which era of English? the future ? the past ?

20. many thanks i got it

21. You are amazing!!! I wanna watch this video over and over again!!!!

22. A bunch of nonsense. Linguists could only be Greek speaking people. Without the knowledge of the mother of all languages you cannot possibly convince anyone with a brain. Just stick to your ''Indo European'' fantasies and leave science alone.

23. This is great. I wished I had seen this before I registered for a Linguistics degree.
    I love learning languages and I am a polyglot, but little did I know that the science of Linguistics = Language study – creativity.
    I much prefer the inductive method: learning languages and extracting the Linguistics/systems by my own observations of patterns. 🙂

24. Thank u????????

25. I'm thinking about getting into the linguistics course at my University. Is there anything I should know???

26. Thank you very much
    I have many questions. Can u give me u r e-mail. To contact u ?!

27. Great! I miss a clear separation from pseudoscientific practices like NLP, which are based on magical thinking and used to invent therapies, methodologies and subsequent pseudocientific practices. Really sad.

28. Very well sir?

29. ?

30. Thanks for the great explanation. I neet to do a scientific study about mistakes in pronunciation some people do when they attempt to speak a certain foreign language. My question is: is this study considered part
    of linguistics?

31. thank you very simple and straight to the point

32. Thank you.

33. Thank U

34. Thank you very so much

35. Loving this so much, thank you, it is so helpful. These are short bites to help me get a grasp, whilst studying for my MA in Linguistics. I will try and watch all your clips, thank you so much.
    No silly explanations. No pictures of cats or dogs.. no distracting music, people acting silly and pulling strange faces. No boring long, winded, unintelligible, not comprehensible, strange dialects.
    Just good informative, understandable, easy to follow breakdowns of critical points.

36. I find easy to learn the languages of the Indo-Iranian sub-family and Indo-Aryan languages than languages of other families because I am using the concepts of linguistics unconsciously.

37. Nice

38. Thank you sir ..

39. Thank you. So crystal clear..

40. Very co lesson.

41. You're awesome !

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