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University Daily Kansan Thursday, May 2, 1963
Speaker Cites Linguistic Need At Latin America Lecture
D. Lincoln Canfield, chairman of the department of languages and linguistics at Rochester, advocated the inclusion of a study of linguistics in language programs in his Latin American Area Lecture last night in Summerfield Hall.
Foreign language programs in universities have wrongly overlooked the need for a study of linguistics, a University of Rochester (N.Y.) professor and department head said last night.
HE CALLED linguistics a secondary, formalized cultural system. He said such things as gestures, facial expressions, eating mannerisms and play were examples of primary, formalized cultural systems.
Prof. Canfield, who is a visiting professor of Spanish at the University of Illinois this semester, defined linguistics as the "objective examination and description of human speech."
"They come to us during childhood, for the most part," be said of the types comprising the informal culture system. My contention is that this is basic culture, this sort of thing. There are hundreds of these informal systems."
The language department at Rochester was recently split into the department of languages and linguistics, which Prof. Canfield heads, and the department of comparative literature.
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HE ADVOCATED the addition to language courses at the undergraduate level introductory linguistics, structural linguistics and historical linguistics.
He said he preferred a department
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of languages and linguistics instead of a department of linguistics because of a need for historical perspective.
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"I feel if the linguist takes refuge in the present, he is losing perspective," Prof. Canfield said. "You can't get away from time in the variations of dialects."
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