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 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 ex...

 Blog #2: Does speaking language mean peace?   What is Language:      Choosing this podcast, I wanted to get an understanding of what 'Language' was beforehand. Language is universal cognitive or social human phenomenon of a system of human communication using arbitrary signs such voice sounds, hand gestures or written symbols with compromised set of rules to send and receive messages used by a community examples would be English, ASL, French, or Spanish. Listening to  Lingthusiasm:      Conversation if everyone could speak the same language would there be world peace and the flaws in that theory. 'Esperanto' is a conlang that was constructed to be a neutral language but it actually is not very neutral as it takes from a European language and it is not easy to learn if you are not apart of that particular group; Esperanto has a Romance look as it uses consonant vowel sequences but also slavic and germanic words are used as well. An examp...

Blog #1:  Do you speak mexican? Sociolinguistics:        Upon finishing up week one it appears through the “scientific study of language” we look at the usage of words and through the subcategories it provides a system of communication.       The thing that became a curiosity to me was how this transferred through other languages and how culture impacts the way language evolves and wanted to know more over “sociolinguistics”. Understanding varied cultures seems to be a critical aspect about linguistics and its ability to develop open-mindedness in students. Deciding to dive into this topic I looked towards ‘Langfocus’ who spoke about the variety of Spanish spoken in Mexico in comparison to European Spanish.      I was born here in the valley and grew up bilingual therefore before viewing this video I could tell you from experience that there are certain semantics that interchange throughout the Spanish speaking world the m...