Sub-fields and Branches

It focuses on the application of the language in daily life.

• Marco-Linguistics

• Applied Linguistics

• Micro-Linguistics

• Psycholinguistics

The study of sentence pattern in a sentence.

• Linguistics

• Pragmatics

• Syntax

• Semantics

Which one is the definition of Micro-Linguistics?

• What a speaker conventionally means (objective or general meaning of the sentence)

• Views language from a border perspective. It is concerned with how a language is acquired or used and how it relates to society as a whole

• Analysis, comparison, and classification of languages according to their common structural features and forms.

• It focuses on the structural components of the language.

It includes all types of affixes: prefixes and suffixes.

• Free Morphemes

• Combined Morpheme

• Morphemes

• Bound Morpheme

From about 1955 to 1965 researchers in the United States and Great Britain undertook projects that would lead to computerized or mechanical translation.

• The projects were undertaken to develop the internet
• The projects were undertaken to develop computational linguistics

• The projects were undertaken to develop the AI capability.

• The projects were undertaken to develop the first computer

Historical linguistics also called _______.

• Diochranic Linguistics

• Dacronic Linguistics

• Diachronic Linguistics

• Diochronic Linguistics

Study of the relationships or correspondences between two or more languages and the techniques used to discover whether the languages have a common ancestor.

• Historical Linguistics

• Comparative Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Psycholinguistics

An individual, for instance, will speak differently to a child than he or she will to their college professor.

• Sociolinguistics

• Neurolinguistics

• Etymology

• Psychological Linguistics

"Psycholinguistics is the study of the mental mechanisms that make it possible for people to use language. It is a scientific discipline whose goal is a coherent theory of the way in which language is produced and understood"

• Alan Gurnham

• Alen Garnham

• Alan Garnhum

• Alan Garnham

The study of the origin and history of words, or a study of this type relating to one particular word

• Etymology
• Philology
• Semiotics
• Linguistics