General linguistics thread starts here!
Now about my personal involvement in this field of study:
I'm working on a little project of my own, which has to do with studying English academic/scientific writing and its stylistics in particular. I need a reasonable amount of digitalized articles I could work with (dating from 40s until now) in order to be able to carry on, and I wonder if there are such resources with archives of digitized articles available.
I forgot what its called, but theres a program that lets you read digitized shit from global newspapers
you get them in pdf format and its literally just local papers from all 4 corners of world w/o translation unfortunately
forgot what its called, but guaranteed 100% exists such a repository
>>7776402
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought myself.
In fact, there's a lot of stuff available for free on gen.lib.rus.ec, but hardly any magazines there are actually digitized.
As for translations, that's not my concern at all because I work with source texts directly. Anyway, if you remember its name, feel free to leave a reply.
>>7776400
most irritating misconceptions about linguistics
>linguistics is about learning/teaching languages
>linguists are experts on whether someone's using proper grammar
>studying linguistics will make you a good writer
>linguistics is about culture
>>7777049
>culture
Well that depends on your definition of language and culture — it's not as if there was just one opinion on the matter.
>studying linguistics will make you a good writer
Not sure about that. For one thing many linguists I know speak well, and some of them have a really good turn of phrase.
>linguists are experts on whether someone's using proper grammar
Agreed. On the contrary, when you study linguistics, you could get the idea that grammar conventions don't matter too much.
>>7777049
Because if we define ‘language’ as a system of symbols, cultural codes can be be seen as languages as well. And in any case the aforementioned cultural codes play a big a role in a language, because what lies behind our words relating to beauty, our rude words — they are all culture-defined. Just to give an example, it is because of the long established conception of sin and sexuality that we can refer to a person we don't like as a "bugger" or "faggot". (By that I don't mean imageboards).
Anyway, how would you define linguistics?
>>7777193
the study of the language faculty