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Relationship Hypotheses: Language and Society

Fatina Sarwar asked: Posing the argument “our definitions of language and society are not independent: the definition of language includes in it a reference to society”(1), Ronald Wardhaugh (1986)in his book “An Introduction to Sociolonguistics” presents quadruple hypotheses proposed by different scholars involved in “the study of the relationship between language and society”(1) and “the… Read More »

History — ‘art or Science’?

Guptajit Pathak asked: There is a raging debate over the fact that whether history is an art or science. History as an Art: Those who believe that history is an art advocate the following opinion :— 1) According to Rickman, “History deals with sequence of events, each of them unique while science is concerned with… Read More »