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Linguistics
Why should YOU study Linguistics at CC?
YouTube videos can illustrate it so well! Follow the links. . .
You'll get a firm grasp on how LANGUAGE works (and order your coffee correctly next time!)
- You can apply what you learn in just about every class you take
- You'll get even better in "playing" with LANGUAGE
- You can eat at Knowlton along with students from Malaysia, Russia,
Bulgaria, England, India ... and collect language data while reflecting
on bilingualism, code-switching and speakers' identities
- You can attend foreign films shown on campus and observe how speakers
behave in various LANGUAGES
- You can participate in SATA that will take you to a foreign country
for a semester. If you don't speak its language yet, you'll begin to
understand its nature.
- And ... you can build your own MAJOR!
Linguists approach LANGUAGE as a system of hierarchically arranged structures that pattern with meanings. At the same time, linguists readily admit that LANGUAGE is an unknown phenomenon, always in a state of flux, renewing itself from within as well as the outside.
Linguists are ecologists who describe dying LANGUAGES and strive to preserve them. They carry around notebooks to record advertisements, accents, grammatical "mistakes"... and force their students to do the same. Listen to Phil Borges talk about "endangered LANGUAGES."