DIGITAL LINGUISTICS AS A NEW DIRECTION IN LANGUAGE STUDY: DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS
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DIGITAL LINGUISTICS AS A NEW DIRECTION IN LANGUAGE STUDY: DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS Meri Sargsyan
In the recent period of linguistics history, on the one hand, fundamental and related
scientific disciplines have emerged, on the other hand, the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics have become limited, and the role of trans-theory and trans-linguistics has increased, which has also turned significant achievements of one field into achievements of others. Whereas at the beginning of the 21st century linguistics was gradually moving from a closed, immanent state to being more or less accessible relative to external factors, linguistics now interacts freely with other sciences. It can therefore be assumed that internal linguistics is evolving into interdisciplinary, anthropological linguistics. Evolutionary linguistics researchers, talking about the development of linguistics, emphasize that linguistics is now becoming more quantitative. We live in the digital era, and distance is no longer as important today as it was in the last century, thanks to modern communication technologies. The considerable linguistic corpora now available, analytical methods in evolutionary biology, graphical analysis, and statistical methods make it possible to study language and represent linguistic phenomena in a multifaceted way. It can be unequivocally
said that in our digital era, we are dealing with interdisciplinary digital linguistics and in the study of which the quantitative approach becomes dominant.
Along with the development of digital technologies, new scientific disciplines have
emerged in linguistics, which on the one hand have displaced previously functioning
scientific disciplines from the arena and on the other hand have come to occupy a central role in the field of linguistic research. Linguistics seems to be changing its nature from a theoretical to an experimental field. In almost all disciplines (grammar, phonology, pragmatics) the role of experimental research has increased. Operational changes have also been observed in the methodology of linguistic disciplines.
The aim of this article is to present the changes in the linguistic paradigm in the digital
era, to comprehend the positive and negative aspects of these changes, to highlight the
features and trends of digital linguistics, to show the shifts in the system of linguistic
disciplines, the transformation of disciplines and the prospects for development.
Referring to the results of recent studies in evolutionary linguistics, as well as
comparing linguistic disciplines operating at different stages of language development, we can state that now, in the era of great possibilities of digital technology, linguistics has undergone quite interesting transformations, the main problem being the integrated representation of language, the discovery of the functional aspect of language, the discovery of links between language and other phenomena, etc. Today we see a completely new quality in the development of linguistics in the form of digital linguistics, which comes with already renewed and completely new disciplines. Digital linguistics can create significant prospects for strengthening links between different linguistic centers and for carrying out interdisciplinary collaborative research. It allows not only the description of individual specific languages but also theoretical and linguophilosophical problems, equally dealing with intralinguistic and extra-linguistic problems.
