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The London School
jueves, 10 de noviembre de 2011
Introduction
Linguistics is the study of language, sometimes called the science of language. The subject has become a very technical, splitting into separate fields: sound (phonetics and phonology), sentence structure (syntax, structuralism, deep grammar), meaning (semantics), practical psychology (psycholinguistics) and contexts of language choice (pragmatics). But originally, as practised in the nineteenth century, linguistics was philology: the history of words. Philologists tried to understand how words had changed and by what principle.
The London school
—The London School and the systemic functional grammar, which has developed out of the London approach to language, consider meaning and function as the basis of human language and communicative activity. The linguistic theorizing in the London style is of practical significance and therefore is more relevant to sociolinguistics, stylistics, literary criticism and language teaching.
-The London School stressed the practical side of phonetics, and trained its students to perceive, transcribe and reproduce each minute sound distinction very precisely.
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