linguistics

[lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks]

Definition:
1. The scientific study of language.
2. The humanistic study of language and literature.

Use 'linguistics' in a sentence:

1. This can be considered an appeal to descriptive linguistics rather than prescriptive linguistics.
2. Also a glowing letter of recommendation from a linguistics professor wouldn't hurt, which I'd be more than happy to write up for you.
3. The first results point the way toward a rigorous, quantitative, historical linguistics.
4. Eventually, I earned a Ph.D. in linguistics close to the age of 50, a self imposed deadline.
5. Talking about important discoveries in linguistics, this was certainly one of them.
6. A scientific paper will be published by the journal Indian Linguistics.
7. And this summer, the school will offer a six-week course titled "The Linguistics of Game of Thrones and the Art of Language Invention," taught by Dothraki creator David J. Peterson.
8. In addition, many ontologies are domain specific in fields such as technology, environmental science, chemistry and linguistics.
9. They must be native speaker; they must have ELT or applied linguistics qualification at postgraduate level and English teaching experience.
10. These ideas rapidly became the new orthodoxy in linguistics.
11. Presupposition is an important field of study in contemporary linguistics.
12. Pan teaches linguistics at Yangtze University.
13. Mr. Urdang graduated from Columbia and did graduate work there in linguistics, studying Russian, German, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Polish.
14. As a specialist in linguistics, I have studied how the conversational styles of men and women differ.
15. In west, the philology is attached to the linguistics.
16. Her early work in broadening the scope of linguistics came in the thesis for her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley.
17. The study of linguistics can be incredibly boring or a source of great joy.
18. It has more in common with formal linguistics than traditional procedural-design techniques.
19. Yeah, she's a doctor of linguistics.
20. She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.
21. She has a genius for linguistics.
22. Listen to part of a lecture in a linguistics class.
23. Therefore, configuration tooling that hides the intricacies of linguistics and rule languages from these users is necessary.
24. So far we have been looking at some of the core areas of linguistics, like syntax, phonology, semantics.
25. I thought the topic I work on was very interesting, and it is certainly relevant to my linguistics major .
26. The research should prove invaluable in the study of linguistics.
27. A professor of linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania wants touse the travel boundaries in his studies of regional dialect boundaries.
28. Linguistics is the language teaching resources and background.
29. History, literature and linguistics are among the arts.
30. It took three hours for the doctor of linguistics to tell us this. Again I quit.
31. Some Important Features in the Current Development of Modern Linguistics.
32. Out with every theory of human behavior, from linguistics to sociology.
33. His revolutionary work in linguistics has aroused intense scholarly interest.
34. The school offers two modules in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, viz. Principles and Methods of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics.
35. Students may pursue research in any aspect of computational linguistics.
36. Modern linguistics emerged as a distinct field in the nineteenth century.
37. But the branch of historical linguistics, involves the comparison of several different languages, or the comparison of different stages of a single language.