Linguistics straddles this... «Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction »
Linguistics straddles this institutional rift. It clearly has its ‘arts’ side, and its links with other subjects in the humanities. Some linguists, for example, are historians of languages others work quite closely with philosophers. It also has links with the ‘social’ sciences, especially sociology and anthropology. Yet it has its ‘science’ side too, in the study especially of the sound of speech and how it is produced and perceived.