General Linguistics studies various aspects of languages

GENERAL LINGUISTICS

human language, formulaic language. grammar and syntax, various languages

General Linguistics

What is linguistics? What does it study? What is language? These and other questions are discussed in this section.

Psycholinguistics studies the psychology of language use and language acquisition

PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

language acquisition, language and thought, lexical access

Psycholinguistics

Language is virtually always pathological; hence the solution is to move as fast and far as possible from language to experience, from linguistic to experimental or psychological philosophy. ∼David Berman

Sociolinguistics studies the role languages play in our society

SOCIOLINGUISTICS

language variation, language policy

Sociolinguistics

Sociolinguistics studies social aspects of language - how language is used in our society and its variation among speakers from different regions and social groups.




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