What is Linguistics?
What do linguists study?
The work of linguists falls into two main areas: language structure and language use.
Linguists interested in language structure consider the formal properties of language, including word structure (morphology), sentence structure (syntax), speech sounds and the rules and patterns between them (phonetics and phonology), and meaning in language (semantics and pragmatics).
Linguists
also study the way that language is used, and this can cover a very
broad range of subjects, since language enters almost every area of
human activity. Examples include: psycholinguistics (the psychology of language acquisition and use); historical linguistics
and the history of languages; applied linguistics (using linguistic
knowledge to help in real-world situations like language teaching); sociolinguistics, varieties of English, discourse analysis and conversation analysis (language use in social contexts); and stylistics (the use of diļ¬erent styles in language).
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