Noun
The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology.
Source: Webster's dictionaryLinguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another. Ferdinand de Saussure
The central doctrine of Cartesian linguistics is that the general features of grammatical structure are common to all languages and reflect certain fundamental properties of the mind. Noam Chomsky
Modern linguistics has also failed to deal with the Cartesian observations regarding human language in any serious way. Noam Chomsky
Cartesian linguistics was not concerned simply with descriptive grammar, in this sense, but rather with "grammaire générale,” that is, with the universal principles of language structure. Noam Chomsky
It is part of the task of linguistics to describe texts, and all texts, including those prose or verse, which fall within any definition of literature and are accessible to analysis by the existing methods of linguistics. Michael Halliday
The sooner these anti-invasionist scholars realize that linguistics is a science which cannot, and indeed need not, be wished away, and the sooner they decided to expend their energies in the study, rather than the dismissal, of this science, the better they will be able to serve their own cause. Shrikant Talageri