Look in several dictionaries and write your own definition. Give a short definition of each one. Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. Linguistic studies are descriptive, not prescriptive.
Linguists seek to explain how language is organized and produced.
Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. The major sub-disciplines of linguistics cover a wide range of topics. The following notes are from Jannedy, Stefanie, et.al. The study of the interrelationship between language and culture. The application of the methods and results of linguistics to such areas as language teaching, national language policies, lexicography, translation, language in politics, advertising, classrooms, and courts, and the like.