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Linguistics historically focused on the theoretical study of language's core constituents—sounds, structure, and meaning—giving rise to fields like phonetics, phonology, grammar, and semantics. However, driven by interdisciplinarity, its scope has broadened to address real-life language use and problems by applying linguistic theories and findings. This expanded domain now includes diverse branches: theoretical (e.g., phonology, semantics), interdisciplinary (e.g., psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics), and applied (e.g., language education, translation studies). A central inquiry remains understanding human communication and language, particularly how babies acquire their mother tongues, a complex area captivating scholars from neurology and psychology. Cognitive psycholinguistics specifically explores aspects like language processing, acquisition, and neural theories of language.

Part One

Chapter One

Linguistics: In everything around us.

For so long, linguistics has been restricted to the theoretical study of language; linguists were mainly concerned with the theoretical study of the core constituents in language, namely sounds, structure and meaning, giving rise to such core sciences as phonetics, phonology, grammar (including morphology and syntax), philology and semantics. With the rise of interdisciplinarity and the need for sciences to intersect to understand problems and issues better, there emerges the need to expand the scope of linguistics to tackle how language is used in real life and solve language-related problems through the application of linguistic theories, methods and findings. Let's have a quick look at some of them.

Branches of linguistics

Theoretical linguistics

Phonology,

Morphology,

Syntax and structural grammar,

Semantics,

Historical linguistics.

Interdisciplinary linguistics

Psycholinguistics,

Sociolinguistics,

Pragmatics,

Discourse analysis.

Computational and corpus linguistics.

Applied linguistics

Applied linguistics to language education,

Applied linguistics to foreign language education,

Translation studies,

Lexicography.

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Core inquiry

One is understanding human communication and human language. How babies acquire their mother languages has become a core inquiry in linguistic theory and a mystery that grips scholars from a wide range of fields, including neurology and psychology.

Cognitive psycholinguistics (such as language processing, language acquisition, figurative language understanding, usage-based theory of acquisition, neural theory of language)

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