One Day Seminar on “Scope of Linguistics” at Department of Linguistics

Prof. Dr. Omkar N. kaul, Prof. of Linguistics (Retired), Institute of Hindi Studies & Linguistics, Agra University; and Prof. Dr. Nazir Ahmed Dhar, Chairperson Department of Linguistics University of Kashmir Sirinagar, visited Department of Linguistics, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad on 7th May, 2015. They shared their knowledge and experience about the scope of Linguistics in India. They made the students aware of the fact that Linguistics has wide application in many disciplines such as clinical linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics. Moreover, they explained how the linkages of department of Linguistics can be established with Medical centers for Language therapy, NGO’s for documentation of dying languages, policy makers for linguistic survey of Pakistani languages, etc