History of "Language & Linguistics"
Language & Linguistics is an irregularly published paper that is meant to present topics related to language and linguistics to an audience of laymen in the first place. By attempting such a thing we are trying to establish a background of understanding of topics we see as important as keeping one’s own household secure and safe.
No respectable nation would rise without having its own language. Before thinking of independence as a political act, peoples under foreign rule first think of the language their state will speak as their official language. Perhaps this was the case with the so-called State of Israel. The Israelis have managed to revive the already dead Hebrew language. A dead language means one that no single person speaks as his/her first language and for main communication (-cative) purposes. They – the Israelis – were so committed and devoted to plan for the revival of their old language that ceased to function in social life long before they thought of a state of their own. One can imagine how arduous the task was. Yet, they succeeded.
There is no language that is better than another. Any group of people use any given language to express their own thoughts and beliefs and for performing all sorts of social interaction. Arabic is no inferior language in itself. On the contrary, it’s one of the most powerful. A good reasoning behind this statement is that it was the only survivor of the Semitic languages – before the revival of Hebrew. English, on the other hand, is no superior language in itself. Yet, in real practice we can touch how influential English is in many, if not all, fields of practical life. It is also establishing itself into non-practical fields.
The major aim of this paper is to increase the awareness of the importance of our own language; i.e., Arabic as the most prominent feature of our culture. In addition to this, Language & Linguistics is intended to bridge the gap between the general public and the findings of specialised research in language and linguistics as one branch of specialised knowledge.
Our hope is that this paper would find its way into regular publishing with the contributions of sincere and active participants. We also hope that specialists in other fields would start writing their findings in their different fields of major in a simple language that would appeal to the understanding of the general public.
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