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1. Introduction to linguistics
By Komal Zulfiqar

2. What is language
• Language is a source of communication.
• The method of humans communication, either spoken or
written, consisting of the use of words in structured and
conventional way.

3. Introduction to linguistics
• The word linguistics has been derived from Latin word
lingua (tongue) and istics (knowledge or science).
• It’s the scientific study of language.
• Linguistics is a science because it is systematic, employs
study, observation, and experimentation, and seeks to
determine the nature and principles of language.

4. Why it’s called scientific study
• Empirical and observable data.
• Related to science, study of nature.
• Follows scientific method.
• Observation, hypothesis, experiment, theory, law etc.
• Describes not prescribes.
• Science describe the things not prescribe.

5. Scope of linguistics
• Linguistics involves a vast, complex and systematic
study, with different core areas such as phonology,
phonetics, morphology, syntax and semantics.
• It is also intertwined with various other disciplines and
contains fields like sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics etc.

6. Branches of linguistics
• Micro linguistics
• A branch of linguistics that concerns itself with the study
of language systems in the abstract, without regard to
the meaning of expressions.
• Macro linguistics
• A field of study concerned with the language in its
broadcast sense and including cultural and behavioral
feature with language.

7. Micro linguistics
• Phonetics ( study of sounds)
• Phonology ( study of sounds of particular language.
(phoneme)
• Morphology ( study of minimal meaningful unit) (morph,
morphemes)
• Syntax ( study of sentences)
• Semantics ( study of meaning)
• Pragmatics ( study of meaning in context)

8. Macro linguistics
• Sociolinguistics ( Study of the relationship between language and
society)
• Psycholinguistics ( study of mind and language)
• Neurolinguistics ( study of how language represented in the brain)
• Stylistics ( style of all types of texts)
• Cognitive linguistics ( study of how we store language in mind)
• Geographical linguistics ( local and regional variations of language)
• Computational linguistics

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