The role of texts’ editing in enriching and redirecting language study paths

Abstract

The dynamic of the process of text editing across different periods has resulted in the documentation of many linguistic sources of considerable scientific value. Undoubtedly, the emergence of new edited sources will have a highly positive effect on enriching the language study and redirecting its paths towards reviewing some of the postulated judgments or reconsidering them categorically. On the basis of this, this research paper seeks to highlight a problematic related to the extent to which the language study keeps up with the movement of text editing, on the one hand, and to the consequences of no keeping with such a movement, on the other, which sometimes contradict what is expected, as is the case of the reversion of some scientific facts, the false attribution ideas and attitudes, or the issuing of definitive judgments that contradict the scientific reality of the studied phenomena. The research will try to touch upon this problematic and discuss its merits through established scientific facts and clear textual data that were reached from a practical reality related to the context of academic scientific research. These data can be reduced to three models that will be subject to study and analysis. Additionally, in view of finding an objective way out to this problematic, the research concludes that the language study should keep up with the editing process and conduct academic linguistic research in the light of objective variables and new textual data emanating from the texts editing process. This research was based in approaching this subject on the requirements of the descriptive approach, to achieve several results, such as: 1- Reconsidering the outcomes of some previous efforts in the language study, be it at the level of perception, tools, or method; 2- Questioning the language study process and reviewing some of the postulates by some modern linguistic studies and examining them carefully in the light of new edited texts; 3- Making use of the new edited language resources for enriching the language study, redirecting, and evaluating its paths.