Linguistics in Other Professions

Abstract

It used to be that the field of linguistics was thought of as a subcomponent of many other academic disciplines. Anthropology still holds claim on linguistics as part of its own field, but in the past 20 or 25 years there has been a distinct moving away from related or derivative fields toward the separation of linguis tics for its own sake, even from anthropology.Apparently there are simultaneous contradictory forces which are at work in the disciplines at all times: the need to solve real problems versus the need to appear so independent of those problems as to seem to be self-sufficient. In the early days of linguistics (before the 1960s), the major tasks of linguists were to address real problems in language teaching and learning, Bible translation, and to relate linguistic research and theory to the concerns of other fields, especially to anthropology, psychology, and education. One primary concern was to dispel marvelously inaccurate information about language that was generally held: language change is not deterioration; language is a part of culture; double negatives do not make a positive; usage is not controlled by fiat, authority, or dictionaries.The great period of theoretical concern set in during the 1960s; not that linguistics had no theoretical concerns before that, but there arose then a real need to clean up the act, to achieve theoretical respectability rather than just to be the servant of other fields, to establish the field as a legitimate academic enterprise, in short, to become independent and to create a separate academic identity. Taking a longer view, one might see this development as parallel to what happened historically in other disciplines as well. Surely the early stages of most social sciences and humanities disciplines must have achieved similar adolescence from a childhood of needs orientation. Such growth is not a bad 419

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