L4Linguistics and Other Fields

Linguistics and Other Fields
Problems concerning the role of language in society:
1) The problems of communities which develop a standard language
and the reactions of minority groups to this (as in Britain, India, or
Wales).
2) The problems of people who have to be educated to linguistic level
where they cope with the demands of a variety of social situations.
3) The problems of communication which exist between nations or
groups using a different language, which affects their ‘world view’.
4) The problems caused by linguistic change in response to social
factors.
5) The problems caused or (solved) by bilingualism or
multilingualism.
6) The problems caused by the need for individuals to interact with
others in specific linguistic ways (language as an index of intimacy
or distance, or solidarity of prestige or power, or pathology, and so
on).
Chomsky’s view of linguistics in his book ‘Language and Mind’:
That is the most important contribution linguistics can make is the study
of the human mind; and that linguistics is accordingly has seen as a
branch of cognitive psychology [=is the branch of psychology that
focuses on the way people process information. It looks at how we
process information we receive and how the treatment of this
information leads to our responses. In other words, cognitive psychology