Language between Modularity and Subsystems as Self-Contained Linguistic Components: Wh-Words as a Case Study
Mustapha Boughoulid · Journal for Research Scholars and Professionals of English Language Teaching · 2022
Modern linguistics has always witnessed the linguists' tendencies to break down language into different modules or subsystems because they are self-contained and domain free having their own specific characteristics.In fact, all the natural languages evoke a variety of sub-systems, which are highly functional, operational, demarkable, identifiable, teachable, learnable, and highly pragmatic; the fact that helps to make of them an integral part of the students' linguistic knowledge.However, the focus of this study is on the Wh-words as a sub-system through which we tried to answer the question about our purpose behind their analysis by using a linguistic corpus based on three novels.The analysis is done by being based on four linguistic factors, the form, the meaning, the structure, and the pragmatic use, a long side with the textual context of these terms and their exploration in terms of the semantic field they evoke in different contexts.