Language and Linguistics: Language is a system of communication.
Linguistics is the study of languages.
Phonetics and phonology
Phonetics is the study of human sounds.
Phonology is the study of the sound system of a language or languages.
Morphology
Morphology is the study of the words as they express grammatical categories.
Lexicology
Lexicology is the study of the structure of the lexicon.lexicon
1. the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.
"the size of the English lexicon"
o a dictionary, especially of Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, or Arabic.
"a Greek–Latin lexicon"
the complete set of meaningful units in a language.
Syntax
Syntax is the study of sentence structure.
Semantics and pragmatics
Semantics is the study of meaning in language.
pragmatics The study of language in use in interpersonal communication.
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is the study of how language is used in society.
Psycholinguistics is the study of language is relation to our cognition and in particular to the way we acquire our first language.
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