International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (ijsell) Volume 2, Issue 8, August 2014, pp 116-130

Keywords:
Structural, Linguistics, Implication, Language, Teaching
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NTRODUCTION 
 
Linguistics is a set of knowledge which is gained by the application of scientific methods to the 
study of language phenomena. These limits are stretched a line of clear binder between scientific 
linguistic study and the study of language that is a non-scientific (Hughes, 1968: 11). Cook said 
that linguistics is the scientific study of language (1971- 1).
Linguistic is the science of language. In Indonesian language, Linguistic is the name of science, 
and the adjective form is "linguistic" (Verhaar, 2001: 3). Linguistic is often called "general 
linguistics" means that the science of linguistic not only investigates only one language (such as 
English or Indonesian), but it involves linguistics‟ language in general. 
Linguistics‟ Science is divided into some varying subordinate areas, for example, there are 
anthropological linguistics, there are sociological linguistics, commonly called sociolinguistics, 
and while there is now a computational linguistic. The all subordinate fields presuppose the 
existence of underlying linguistic knowledge. The underlying field is the field that involves 
certain basic structures, namely the structure of language sound, this field is called "phonetics" 
and "phonology", the words‟ structure is called "morphology", the structure between words in 
sentences is called "syntactic", the study of meaning is called “semantic”, all about 
communication strategy between internal people is called “parole”, or the use of language, and 
language is also concerned with the relationship of speech to talk about what, is called 
"pragmatic". 
There are three definitions of linguistic; the first is “the science of language, such as its structure, 
acquisition, relationship to other forms of communication” (Hornby, 1980: 494). It means that 
language science, for example its structure, its mastering, its relation to the forms of other 
communication. The second, “the study of human speech including units, nature, structure and 
modification of language” (Webster, 1981: 664) that is the study of human talk consists of its 

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