Intellect

Linguistics is a huge discipline with many sub-fields many of which drift towards, and often considerably overlap with, the primary concerns of cultural studies.

In general, however, linguistics is concerned with the deconstruction of language itself, with the nuts and bolts of the system, like phonetics, morphology, syntax and lexis. How these factors are systematically acquired (psycholinguistics) and how they interact with the socio-cultural context in which they are used (such as sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics) are of prime consequence.

Both of these approaches to language and culture are represented in this volume. The eclecticism of the papers should be seen as a strength, reflecting the wide range of ways in which we are all influenced by, and to an extent constructed by language.