 Certainly, common people violently answer

and people have numerous misconceptions

about the nature of linguistics.
 Most of the people ask wrong Question…….
is
 What are Linguistics?
Let us say , therefore forcibly that linguistics is not
be identified with four main fields.

1.The study of history of language,

or
Philology.
2.The learning of many languages,
or
Polyglottism.
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.
 Phonetics
The 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.
 Morphology
The 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.
 Semantics
Now we have got our sentences, we should
know what they mean. The study of meaning
is called semantics.

 Pragmatics
The ways in which context contributes to
meaning.
 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.
 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.
 Thank
you
Question?