Linguistics Introduction

 Blog #3: Intro to Linguistics

What is Linguistics?

Linguistics is the scientific study of language and its structure. Linguistics looks at all the parts of language from how they're made  processed and decoded. Philology was what the term used before as linguistic was a term used for students who studied it but overtime it became its known name. Linguistics apply scientific method to speech sounds, gestures, grammatical structures, and meaning across the world's thousands of languages through observations, testing and developing theories.

Subfields of Linguistics:

Phonetics: The study of speech sounds are produced by organs and perceived

Phonology: The study of sound patterns and changes

Morphology: The study of word structure

Syntax: The study of sentence structure

Semantics: The study of linguistic meaning

Pragmatics: The study of how language is used in context

History of Linguistics:

Language changes overtime, there many different eras to language through history an example would be how different Modern English would be from Old English and Middle English and how real world history is a major factor in these changes. 

Why is this important to know?

I chose to do this blog as to refresh the meaning of linguistics as all of my blogs will be covering the basis of linguistics from phonetics, ..... It is important to have an understanding of the subject before you can study the subject. Language is a complex having many aspects to it as a form of communication it is crucial to distinguish it at that affect it such as gender and vowels sounds are different in multiple genders and it would help communicate effectively in your native or second language.

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