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Annual Review of Linguistics

Volume 9, 2023

Language Across the Disciplines

  • Anne H. Charity Hudley1, Aris M. Clemons2 and Dan Villarreal3
  • 1Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA; email: [email protected] 2Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA 3Department of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Vol. 9:253-272 (Volume publication date January 2023)
  • Copyright © 2023 by the author(s).
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See credit lines of images or other third-party material in this article for license information

Abstract

This article reviews the study of language across disciplines. We focus on epistemological and methodological frameworks in the study of language broadly within linguistics departments and across disciplinary areas that concentrates on the organizational structure across departments, degree programs, organizations, and professions. We then emphasize emerging transdisciplinary trends in the study of language and communication. We highlight pressing research required to recenter humans and the human communicative experience. We use examples from lexical and morphological investigations to illustrate the complexity and relevance of the study of language across areas and paradigms.

Keyword(s): linguistics, linguistics as a discipline, study of language, transdisciplinary trends
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