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Muhammad Ali SoomroM.A English Final
Linguistics 2015-17
SHAH ABDUL LATIF UNIVERSITY
KHAIRPUR MIR’S
Certainly, common people violently answer and people have numerous misconceptions about the nature of linguistics.
Most of the people ask wrong Question…….
What are Linguistics?
?What is
is
2.The learning of many languages, or
Polyglottism.
Let us say , therefore forcibly that linguistics is not be identified with four
main fields.1.The study of history of
language, orPhilology.
3.Literary criticism, or other fields
involving a scale of values, such as
speech training. 4.The traditional study of
grammar as carried on over the past
hundred years in most of our schools.
What actually linguistics is?Language
Sound Structure MeaningPhoneticsPhonology
MorphologySyntax
SemanticsPragmatics
PhoneticsThe study of sounds i.e. how they are produced & described.
PHONOLGY The study of how these sounds are arranged
in a Language, i.e. the sound pattern of a language.
BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS
MorphologyThe study of how words are made in shapes of words (boy=boys, girl—ish= girlish)
Syntax When words combine together in
sentences , they do so according to certain rules . These rules are the rules of syntax. If we want to know how sentences are formed in a language, we study its syntax.
BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS
SemanticsNow we have got our sentences, we should know what they mean. The study of meaning is called semantics.
PragmaticsThe ways in which context contributes to meaning.
BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS
A degree in linguistics can be of great value in the pursuit of careers in education, publishing, media, social services, communication, computer languages, voice analysis research, communicative disorders and other language related fields.
What can you be? Being a Linguist.
Bilingual Education Broadcaster/News Reader Communication Disorders Specialist Copywriter Editor Grant / Proposal writer Interpreter Language Planner Lexicographer Professor/Instructor/Teacher Psycholinguist Public Relations Publishing Researcher Technical Writer Translator; and many more.
Representative job titles and areas of specialization:
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