Is about the ways sounds pattern in languages.

Appropriate use of language and appropriate interpretation of what is said in the light of peoples' belief and the context in which is is said.

Analyses large collections of natural texts (both spoken and written) known as “corpus” to explain, exemplify and interpret patterns of language use.

The study of how social factors –including class, race, and ethnicity- influence language.

The study of language and culture, including the study of kinship terms and how language shapes cultural identity.

System of rules underlying our knowledge of words and sentence meaning

‘The study of the cognitive processes that support the acquisition and use of language: bilingualism, production and perception of L2, code switching, memory, gestures in second language, etc.

"The study of the system of rules underlying our knowledge of the structure of words"

Is "the study of the physical aspects of the sounds of speech".

The study of language change over time, including the study of language families and relationships among the world’s languages.

"The way sentences are made up of smaller parts... how words go together to form larger sentences"

Statistical or rule-based modeling of natural language from a computational perspective (translators, dictionnaries, artificial intelligence, etc.)