Examples of linguistics in the following topics:
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- One example is the principle of linguistic relativity.
- The strong version states that language determines thought and emotions/feelings, and linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories
- The weak version argues that linguistic categories and usage influence thought and certain kinds of non-linguistic behavior .
- A main point of debate in the discussion of linguistic relativity is the strength of correlation between language and thought and emotion/feelings.
- The centrality of the question of the relation between thought or emotions/feelings and language has brought attention to the issue of linguistic relativity, not only from linguists and psychologists, but also from anthropologists, philosophers, literary theorists, and political scientists.
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- The scientific study of language in any of its senses is called linguistics.
- The word language has at least two basic meanings: language as a general concept, and a specific linguistic system (e.g.
- One definition sees language primarily as the mental faculty that allows humans to undertake linguistic behaviour--to learn languages and produce and understand utterances.
- Human languages are usually referred to as natural languages, and the science of studying them falls under the purview of linguistics.
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- Some theories are based on the idea that language is so complex that one cannot imagine it simply appearing from nothing in its final form, but that it must have evolved from earlier pre-linguistic systems among our pre-human ancestors.
- Alternatively early human fossils can be inspected to look for traces of physical adaptation to language use or for traces of pre-linguistic forms of symbolic behaviour.
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- The qualities that determine a subculture as distinct may be linguistic, aesthetic, religious, political, sexual, geographical, or a combination of factors.
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- The linguistic and cultural turns of the mid-twentieth century led to increasingly interpretative, hermeneutic, and philosophic approaches to the analysis of society.
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- Often, due to practices of group endogamy, allele frequencies cluster locally around kin groups and lineages, or by national, cultural, or linguistic boundaries - giving a detailed degree of correlation between genetic clusters and population groups when considering many alleles simultaneously.
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- Gender, however, takes many forms and is shaped by religious, political, legal, philosophical, linguistic, and other traditions.
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- Some of the characteristics that constitute these groupings are biological and some are learned (cultural or linguistic) traits that are easy to notice.
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- For example, various ethnic, "national," or linguistic groups from Africa, Asia and the Pacific Islands, Latin America, and Indigenous America have long been combined together as racial minority groups (currently designated as African American, Asian, Latino and Native American or American Indian, respectively).
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- The analysis of "structures" in engineering, linguistics, and many other fields are a rich source of new ideas for analysts focusing on social relations.