This article is about information of contrastive linguistics and text linguistics.

The article discusses the notion of anthropocentric view in linguistics, formation of the anthropocentric paradigm in linguistics. Takes close look to researches done on cognitive linguistics which is considered one of the relevant fields of modern linguistics. Main trends of cognitive linguistics and their principles are discussed.

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Do narratives concern only narratology or can they interest linguistics? If we suppose that linguistics cannot consider any unit beyond the sentence, then narratives are not an object for linguistics. But if linguistics do not stop at the sentence, then narratives may be the object of what R. Barthes called, with É. Benveniste, a “linguistics of discourse” or “translinguistics”. Narratology limits investigation to narrativity and different forms of storytelling, whereas, text linguistics and discourse linguistics are not a specifically narrative theory but a theory that includes narrative as one of its objects. This essay shows that the move from a “classical” to a “postclassical narratology” is less a revolution than an evolution. R. Barthes’s anchoring in É. Benveniste’s linguistics of discourse showed the way to a distinctly French postclassical narratology.

This paper covers the basics of linguistics. Linguists are agreed upon this point that linguistics is the scientific study of language. This paper depicts clearly that now-a-days study of Urdu Linguistics is on the path of development and promotion. It is inclined towards oral, specialized and phonetic mode. Sub-sectional study of linguistics has generated semantics and stylistics in the discipline of linguistics. Urdu Linguistics now is deeply connected with linguistics and teaching; linguistics and anthropology; and linguistics and literature. Today, it is under discussion whether Urdu Linguistics is Science or Arts.

This article deals with the analysis of contrastive linguistics and cognitive linguistics.

Modern linguistics heavily depends on the idea that it is possible to draw a line between the proper, serious, scientific, institutional linguistics and various forms of illegitimate activities: folk linguistics, ideological linguistics, mythological linguistics and inventive linguistics. This partition is in theory to be questioned, but was all the more so in the 17th century, a century when legitimate linguistics occupied a position which was still relatively marginal compared with all the fields that dealt with language (philosophy, rhetoric, grammar, physics…). At that time, language itself was above all a philosophical object, as it was thought to be doomed, one day, to be "reduced" to principles that relied on philosophy. At the very beginning of the 17th century (1620), the English philosopher Francis Bacon thought that language was one of the reasons why philosophy made so little progress. International audience

Modern linguistics heavily depends on the idea that it is possible to draw a line between the proper, serious, scientific, institutional linguistics and various forms of illegitimate activities: folk linguistics, ideological linguistics, mythological linguistics and inventive linguistics. This partition is in theory to be questioned, but was all the more so in the 17th century, a century when legitimate linguistics occupied a position which was still relatively marginal compared with all the fields that dealt with language (philosophy, rhetoric, grammar, physics…). At that time, language itself was above all a philosophical object, as it was thought to be doomed, one day, to be "reduced" to principles that relied on philosophy. At the very beginning of the 17th century (1620), the English philosopher Francis Bacon thought that language was one of the reasons why philosophy made so little progress.

Cognitive linguistics is the study of the essence of a particular concept in the linguistic description of the world and its relation to world realities. Concept is one of the main categories of cognitive linguistics and is an element that establishes the connection between culture and man. Cognitive linguistics is a cluster of closely related approaches to the study of language as a mental phenomenon. Cognitive linguistics emerged as a school of linguistics in the 1970s. Cognitive linguistics is the study of knowledge, the study of language, which represents the crucial role of secular information structures in our interactions with the world. This paper discusses the theoretical foundations of conceptualization in cognitive linguistics.