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The World and the LAnguage

2. Answer the questions.

  1. How may linguistics be defined?

  2. Where can you find the definition of linguistics?

  3. What was earlier linguistics research?

  4. What point should be appreciated?

  5. What is ‘autonomy’ in the investigation of language?

  6. What is the precise meaning of the phrase ‘language as an end in itself’?

  7. Who considers that the time may now be ripe for the incorporation of the theory of language into a more embracing synthesis of science and philosophy?

  8. What did linguists research in the nineteenth century?

  9. How was the description of a particular language made?

  10. What is Saussure’s distinction between the diachronic and the synchronic investigation of language?

  11. What does diachronic linguistics study?

  12. What does synchronic linguistics study?