What is Linguistics?
Linguistics is the study of one of the most important human characteristics: language.
It is an interdisciplinary field that involves the integration of the natural sciences,
the medical sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.

Studying linguistics is not a matter of learning lots of different languages,
but rather it is the study of language in general. It is the study of
the essential nature of any human language.

The Jamaican Language Unit

Announcing the Inaugural session of the Caribbean Language and Linguistics Institute 2008