Linguistics and Ancient Languages
Atoosa Rostambeik Tafreshi
Volume 14, Issue 32 , February 2015, , Pages 51-72
Abstract
Humanities can be described as the study of different ways in which people all around the world, in different periods of time, process and document the human experience. The nature of human beings as multidimensional creatures urges the necessity of multidisciplinary concerns in humanities in which linguistics ...
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Humanities can be described as the study of different ways in which people all around the world, in different periods of time, process and document the human experience. The nature of human beings as multidimensional creatures urges the necessity of multidisciplinary concerns in humanities in which linguistics is included. In this article, after discussing the nature of language, linguistics, and humanities a short history of development of this field as a scientific study is presented. Using a descriptive-analytic method, the role of linguistics as a scientific study of language is discussed in relation to other fields of humanities including sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, philosophy, politics and law. This study shows that there is a deep and undeniable relation between linguistics and other fields in humanities which itself sometimes results in developing different interdisciplinary branches in linguistics. Nevertheless, most of the fields studied in this article lack linguistics in their syllabi
