Task 2 - The nature of linguistics and language

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1. Attribute
What does the quote tell you about their perspective on the study and analysis of
language?
The linguist Ferdinand de Saussure was mainly involved in historical, comparative natural
language.
Thanks to this author we can analyze that language has been involved in the history of
language, either by the simple fact of discovering the relationships that exist in languages, or
by the variation that exists between each language. He also introduced us to grammatical
forms, pronunciation, rules for word forms, for example: handling of nouns and verbs in
sentences, vocabulary, as it helps to learn the language that is being studied. .
I also led him to define linguistics as an introduction to linguistics as a study of language, that
is, language is a set of signs that are members of a system defined by their relationships with
each other. For example: We know what something means by knowing also what it does not
mean, that is to say in Spanish it is like saying the lake is near my house, but in English I
would not know how to say it.
The linguist Noam Chomsky reacted against certain theories about language and the
acceptance of other perspectives at the same time, that is to say the field of linguistics had only
undergone some changes to what we see today. The linguist Noam Chomsky was trained in
structuralist theory and structuralist analysis, he was not good enough to account for the
handling of syntax, especially the ability of syntax to generate an infinite number. This linguist
focused on the structuralism of speech, and used real data for his study analysis in large
quantities, he was able to collect several languages to analyze how the language worked, in
people and what was their behavior when listening to a language other than their own they
spoke. Speech patterns were seen as an example of behavioral behavior from the study of
human practices, such as language, the object of study is what can be openly observed and
described.
Chomsky's linguistics is seen as a revolution against behavior seen from language. For
example, the real use of language or interpretations, that is, it is the mental base of processes
that we carry out in our production of language, for example, how to know how to speak
taking into account the structures of grammatical forms, how to know how to use vocabulary ,
as we should think before we speak.
Linguist Michael Halliday became interested in the study of language because of its
own learning experiences, was driven by the need to solve particular problems in language
teaching, and explain the characteristics of the language to students, such as the relationship
between grammar and vocabulary.
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