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2. List of linguists - Wikipedia

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   A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interpreter (especially in the military), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be ...

3. Structural linguistics - Wikipedia

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   Structural linguistics, or structuralism, in linguistics, denotes schools or theories in which language is conceived as a self-contained, self-regulating semiotic system whose elements are defined by their relationship to other elements within the system. [ 1 ][ 2 ] It is derived from the work of Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure and is part ...

4. Applied linguistics - Wikipedia

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   e. Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication research, information science, natural language processing, anthropology, and sociology.

5. Linguistic Society of America - Wikipedia

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   Website. www.lsadc.org. The Linguistic Society of America (LSA) is a learned society for the field of linguistics. Founded in New York City in 1924, the LSA works to promote the scientific study of language. The society publishes three scholarly journals: Language, the open access journal Semantics and Pragmatics, and the open access journal ...

6. Susan Hunston - Wikipedia

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   Susan Elizabeth Hunston OBE [1] (born 1953) is a British linguist. She received her PhD in English under the supervision of Michael Hoey at the University of Birmingham in 1989. [2] She does research in the areas of corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. She is one of the primary developers of the Pattern Grammar model of linguistic ...

7. Linguistic anthropology - Wikipedia

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   Linguistics. Linguistic anthropology is the interdisciplinary study of how language influences social life. It is a branch of anthropology that originated from the endeavor to document endangered languages and has grown over the past century to encompass most aspects of language structure and use. [1]