Portal:Linguistics
Linguistics Portal
Linguistics are the scientific study of language, and are largely divided into two major fields: theoretical linguistics and applied linguistics. Someone who engages in this study is called a linguist.
Theoretical (or general) linguistics encompass six major sub-fields: phonetics (the study of the isolated sounds of speech), phonology (the study of speech sound systems and their mental representations), morphology (the study of the grammatical rules for word formation), syntax (the study of word order), semantics (the study of meaning) and pragmatics (the study of meaning in context) which, together, allow for a description of the way a language works to convey meaning from one speaker to another. Applied linguistics encompass diverse fields such as language education, second language acquisition, effect of society on language, or language's relationship to psychology, and so on.
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- Language acquisition
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- Corpus linguistics
- Internet linguistics
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