Linguistic description

<p>In the <a href="/facts/Linguistics/oQuamvf2">study of language</a>, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of <a href="/facts/Objectivity_(science)/dvNQI5a9">objectively</a> analyzing and describing how <a href="/facts/Language/IRcTok2q">language</a> is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a <a href="/facts/Speech_community/WwjpQgR5">speech community</a>. 
</p><p>All academic research in <a href="/facts/Linguistics/oQuamvf2">linguistics</a> is descriptive; like all other scientific disciplines, it aims to describe reality, without the bias of preconceived ideas about how it ought to be. Modern descriptive linguistics is based on a <a href="/facts/Structural_linguistics/lbAbLF8h">structural approach</a> to language, as exemplified in the work of <a href="/facts/Leonard_Bloomfield/TBtTxGP2">Leonard Bloomfield</a> and others. This type of linguistics utilizes different methods in order to describe a language such as basic data collection, and different types of elicitation methods.
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