Systematic study of human language
Department of Linguistics
Linguistics, the systematic study of human language, lies at the crossroads of the humanities and the social sciences, drawing on a special combination of intuition and rigor that the analysis of language demands.
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Explore Linguistics
Language & the Law - LING 2223
Discover how language impacts the theory and practice of law. Topics include: origins of legal language, linguistics in the courtroom, plagiarism and language rights. This course also introduces areas of linguistics such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics, which explicate a wide range of legal matters where both spoken and written language come to fore.
1946
The year the department was founded
7117
Number of distinct languages spoken throughout the world
205
Endangered languages spoken in the United States