Linguistics

Linguistics: The study of natural language. This study has two divisions which are language structures and language meanings.
1. Language Structures consist of morphology, syntax and phonology/phonetics.
• Morphology is the study of the structure of words and their modifications. (prefix, root and suffix)
• Syntax is the study of how words combine to form grammatical sentences, aka word order.
• Phonology/phonetics is the study of sounds and pronunciation as well as the study of sound symbols.
2. Language Meanings consist of pragmatics, semantics and discourse analysis.
• Pragmatics is the study of how context contributes to meaning.
• Semantics is the meaning of words.
• Discourse Analysis is the analysis of language in spoken, written and signed texts.


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