I stumbled upon Neuro Linguistic Programming that has become so popular these days and as I pored over books and articles on the matter, I have come to deduce the effectiveness of the program based on the models of technology it employs.

Broadly defined as the scientific study of language (according to Merriam Webster: "the study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of language"), linguistics has been a discipline of study for over two millennia. It endeavours to answer the questions "what is language?", "what is the origin of speech?" and tries...

In the days before the sophisticated software programs and technology we have today to learn a language, the only method available to learners was a full dose of immersion - you listen as I speak and decipher the meaning. Imagine that. Before I learned to speak Brazilian Portuguese, I used to ponder the thought: "how difficult would it be to learn...

The scientific study of language is called linguistics and it encompasses various sub-fields of study. In the past, the study of language was referred to as philology. Unlike modern linguistics, philology was more focused on the historical aspects of language.

Modern linguistics is a fairly young form of discipline as compared to history or philosophy. Linguistics' modern field dates only as far back as the 19th century. It is regarded, though, that Ancient India and Greece both played remarkable roles on the formation of grammatical traditions. The literary and rhetoric analysis of the workings of human...