Linguistics is a name given during the modern era for the scientific study of language. It was however obvious that the human beings didn't wait for the 19th century to take an interest in this subject: the first Greek treaties date in all probability from the 5th century BCE, and mark the beginning of a tradition of knowledge that has played an essential role in Western culture.
As a pluralist discipline, linguistics adopts various points of view on language: it can study the form or the meaning of words and sentences, their variation in space, time or society; it can be attached to pronounced and heard sounds or written signs, to a cultural or psychological dimension of the language, etc.
It establishes links with all human sciences, but also, among other things with neurology, cryptography, or IT. Actually, nowadays, it feeds numerous applications in those fields, just as, of course, in the teaching of languages, information processing and communication.
Evaluation: Validation of the course is linked to the submission of a written paper (synthesis) or to an oral presentation.
Course language: French
- Profesor: Gautier Antoine