General Linguistics (ASV) is about the phenomenon of human language, and General Linguistics research concerns such diverse areas as the structural variation between languages in the world, how children acquire their first language, how languages change over time, and the role of language as a marker of identity for groups and individuals.
Stockholm University, especially the Department of Linguistics, has got the great honour to host the 2012 edition of the yearly conference of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE), August 29 - September 1, 2012.
If you are curious about the uniquely human capacity for language, and what human languages are actually like in various ways, General Linguistics is the discipline for you.
Language and our language capacity can be studied in many ways, e.g. in conversations between people, in the brain, in large text collections demonstrating actual use, in grammatical systems, etcetera. It is therefore a strongly cross-disciplinary area of study.
