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    The document discusses the various branches and components of linguistics. It describes general linguistics, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and applied linguistics. It also outlines the main components of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Finally, it provides the scientific method that linguists follow to study language, which involves observation, hypothesis, data collection, data analysis, and testing procedures.

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    The document discusses the various branches and components of linguistics. It describes general linguistics, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, theoretical linguistics, and applied linguistics. It also outlines the main components of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Finally, it provides the scientific method that linguists follow to study language, which involves observation, hypothesis, data collection, data analysis, and testing procedures.

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    BRANCHES OF LINGUISTICS

    General Linguistics DescriptiveLinguistics

    Historical Linguistics Diachronic/Synchronic Microlinguistics Macrolinguistics

    Theoretical Linguistics Applied Linguistics

    COMPONENTS OF LINGUISTICS

    Phonetics Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Pragmatics


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    General Linguistics studies language in general. What is language? It supplies the concepts and categories in terms of which particular language is to be analyzed. Descriptive Linguistics describes particular languages. Provides the data which confirm or refute the propositions and theories put forward in general linguistics. Historical Linguistics concerns with investigating the details of the historical development of particular languages and with formulating general hypothesis about language-change. languageDiachronic description of language traces the historical development of the language and records the changes that have taken place in it between successive points in time. Synchronic description of language: It is non-historical. It presents an language: nonaccount of the language as it is at some particular point in time.

    Theoretical Linguistics studies language and languages with a view to constructing a theory of their structure and functions but without any practical applications that the investigation of language and languages might have. Applied Linguistics: It is concerned with the applications of the concepts and findings of linguistics to a variety of practical tasks, including language teaching. Microlinguistics concerns with the structure of language systems without regard to the way in which languages are acquired, stored in the brain or used in various functions. Macrolinguistics concerns with everything that pertains in any way at all to language and languages

    Scientific Method
    OBSERVATION HYPOTHESIS DATA COLLECTION DATA ANALYSIS TEST PROCEDURES FOLLOWED BY LINGUISTS TO STUDY LANGUAGE The detection by observation of a language phenomenon. The proposal of a possible explanation of the detected and observed phenomenon. The designing of a process to collect evidences (corpus) that may help to find the explanation. The analysis of the collected evidences (corpus). The organization of results that may lead to accept the explanation of the phenomenon, or reject , or modify it.

    Select a problem related to language in the real world and investigate it using the procedures followed by linguists to study language. language. Metalinguistics: the study of the interrelationship between language and other cultural behavioral phenomena. Semiotics: The science of signs, of symbolic behavior or of communication-systems. communication-

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