Linguistics

Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. (Lay people sometimes use the term linguistician, but as Aitchison 2003 points out, this is "too much of a tongue-twister to become generally accepted.")

External links

• Linguistics and Human Languages in the Yahoo! Directory
• Glossary of linguistic terms at SIL International
• Amazon.com Books - Linguistics
• "Linguistics" section of A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology, ed. J. A. García Landa (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
• A Preliminary Field Guide to Linguists, Part One: A humorous overview of the various branches of linguistics and their practitioners. There is also a Part Two.