1. APPLICATIONS OF
LINGUISTICS AS A SCIENCE
OF LANGUAGE
DEEPA MONI BORUAH
PhD (LINGUISTICS)
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
NEW DELHI-110067
INDIA

2. Linguistics is the scientific study of
Language.
Language in relation to Society.
Language in relation to Education
Language in relation to Mind and Brain.
Language in relation to Technology.
WHAT IS LINGUISTICS?

3. GOALS
Linguists (people who are specialists in
Linguistics) primary goal is to understand the
nature of Language in general.
Linguists not only describe the diverse
characteristics of individual languages but also
seek to discover the universal properties which
all languages share and try to explain the innate
and acquired characteristics of language.

4. SUB-FIELDS OF LINGUISTICS
Linguistics
Theoretical Linguistics Applied Linguistics
Descriptive Generative Cognitive Fields Applications

5. MAJOR THEORETICAL
LINGUISTICS
DESCRIPTIVE LINGUSITICS
(Phonetics) (Phonology) (Morphology)(Syntax) (Semantics) (Pragmatics )

6. APPLICATION IN HUMAN
SCIENCES
Although linguistics is the scientific study of
language, it also contributing to the other
fields of Knowledge.

7. APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Fields Applications

8. APPLIED LINGUSTICS
FIELDS APPLICATIONS
Education L2 Teaching
Literature and culture Literary theory/stylistics
Language Teaching Cognitive Linguistics
Sociology Neurolinguistics
Anthropology Clinical Linguistics
Bioscience Dictionary Making
Psychology Psycholinguistics
Clinical Application Language Acquisition
Computer Science Computational Linguistics
Speech Recognition Forensic Linguistics
Forensic Science
Translation
Lexicology

9. CONCLUSION
Linguistics is a developing science these
days.
Linguistics can help in discovering new ways
of learning languages. It helps to understand
how language works.
Linguistics study helps to develop skills in
data analysis, problem solving, and logical
thinking that can be applied to many fields or
pursue careers in areas like foreign language
teaching, the teaching of English as a second
language ,the publishing and communication
industries, translating and
interpreting, computational fields etc.