This department started its activities as a part of the Department of Persian Language and Literature in the second semester of the academic year of 1991-1992 by admitting 6 students to an M.A program in Linguistics. In the first semester of the academic year of 1996-1997 the department admitted four PhD students and it was in the first semester of the academic year of 2007-2088 when the department was transferred to the Faculty of Foreign Languages. The Department of General Linguistics in the University of Isfahan was the first Linguistics department in the whole country to establish a B.A program in General Linguistics in 2007 with the aim of enhancing the quality of M.A and PhD programs. The M.A programs of the department include the three subdisciplines of General Linguistics, Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers and Computational linguistics. The programs in Teaching Persian to Non-Persian Speakers and Computational linguistics were launched in 2010 and 2012 respectively. The range of expertise provided by the faculty members of the department namely in the areas of Phonetics, Phonology, Syntax, Language Typology, Semantics, Morphology, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics and Linguistics has paved the way for research enthusiasts . Moreover, thanks to the cooperation with the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence of the University new venues have been opened for doing research on NLP (Natural Language Processing as well as Machine Translation. In addition, the Linguistics Laboratory available to this Department has facilitated conducting laboratory research for the interested students and researchers.