Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics
Chapter 2 Phonetics and Phonology
Chapter 3 Morphology
Chapter 4 Semantics
Chapter 5 Syntax
Chapter 6 Pragmatics
Chapter 8 Schools of Linguistics
Chapter 9 Teaching Methodologies and Testing
Chapter 10 Language Acquisition
Chapter 11 Cognitive Linguistics
Chapter 12 Language and Culture
Chapter 13 Sociolinguistics
Chapter 14 Psycholinguistics
Chapter 15 Neurolinguistics
Chapter 16 Corpus Linguistics
Chapter 17 Stylistics
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1. What is linguistics?
Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language, which involves the investigation into all human languages. It is scientific because it is based on the systematic investigation of linguistic data, conducted with reference to some general theory of language structure.
2. The Branches of Linguistics
Linguisticsincludes general linguistics, interdisciplinary branches and applied linguistics.
1 General linguistics refers to the study of language as a whole, which deals with the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study. General linguistics can be further subdivided into various fields like phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, etc.
Phonetics: The study of speech sounds
Phonology: The study of the system of speech sounds in a language, or the system of sounds itself.
Morphology: The study of the morphemes of a language and of the way in which they are joined together to make words.
Syntax: The way that words and phrases are put together to form sentences in a language.