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What is linguistics ?    Linguistics is usually defined as the ‘scientific study of language’. Such a statement,however, raises two further questions: what do we mean by “scientific”? and what do we mean by “language” ?.    when we say that a linguist aims to be scientific, we mean that it attempts to study language in much the same way as a scientist studies physic or chemistry, that is systematically and as far as posibble without prejudice. It means observing language use, forming hypotheses about it, testing these hypotheses and then refining them on the basis of the evidence collected. From that steatment there are some decribe of scientist about linguistics such as: ·          Bloomfield    Linguistics is science like physics   and chemical are scientis ·          Hjlemslev    Linguistics is a example of metasemiotica or to research about ...