Sep 5, 2025 · linguistics, the scientific study of language. The word was first used in the middle of the 19th century to emphasize the difference between a newer approach to the study of …

Sep 23, 2025 · Language - Structure, Acquisition, Use: Languages are immensely complicated structures. One soon realizes how complicated any language is when trying to learn it as a …

Philology, traditionally, the study of the history of language, including the historical study of literary texts. It is also called comparative philology when the emphasis is on the comparison of the …

Historical linguistics, the branch of linguistics concerned with the study of phonological, grammatical, and semantic changes, the reconstruction of earlier stages of languages, and the …

Oct 11, 2025 · Morphology, in linguistics, study of the internal construction of words. Languages vary widely in the degree to which words can be analyzed into word elements, or morphemes …

Sep 6, 2025 · A central question for linguistic anthropology is whether differences in cultural and structural usage among diverse languages promote differences among human communities in …

Comparative linguistics, study of the relationships or correspondences between two or more languages and the techniques used to discover whether the languages have a common ancestor.

Ethnolinguistics, that part of anthropological linguistics concerned with the study of the interrelation between a language and the cultural behaviour of those who speak it.

Semiotics, the study of signs and sign-using behavior. It was defined by one of its founders, the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, as the study of ‘the life of signs within society.’

Oct 8, 2025 · phonetics, the study of speech sounds and their physiological production and acoustic qualities.