°°°Branches of Linguistics°°°

Linguistics is the scientific analysis of language. Language is concerned with human life, behavior,
society, and so forth. Hence, we have had a number of sub-fields of linguistics called branches of
linguistics. Let us have crucial ideas of the major departments of linguistics as noted below.

•Micro-linguistics:--

Micro-linguistics is a sector of in linguistics that interest itself with the analysis of language systems in
the abstract, without concern to the meaning or notional quantity of linguistic expressions. Micro-
linguistics covers the crucial elements of a language. This is also cited as theoretical linguistics.
Theoretical linguistics coats the study of the structural aspects of language under the broad level of
grammar. Grammar is divided into few structures.

Additional name is levels of linguistics.

•Phonetics:--classification of speech sounds.

•Phonology:--Phonemes and how soundclassificationed and used in natural languages.

•Morphology:--Word formation and particularly form, shape, or structure.

•Syntax:--Sentence structure and the configuration of words and phrases to build well-formed
sentences in a language.

•Semantics:--Textual meaning and the meaning of a word, phrase, or text.

•Pragmatics:--Contextual meaning and used in dialogue, text organization, presupposition, and

implicature.

2.Macro-linguistics:--

Macro-linguistics concerned with the way languages are developed, stocked in the brain, and used for
various purposes; interdependence of language and culture; physiological and psychological
mechanisms affected in language behavior. Actually, macro-linguistics is not only a field concerned with
language but also disciplines such as psychology, sociology, neurology, computational, and applied are
also deflected with language. Below branches of macro-linguistics:--

•Psycho-linguistics--mind and connections between linguistic behavior and psychological procedures,

encompassing the method of language acquisition.

•Socio-linguistics:--society and relation to social aspects, including distinctions of provincial, class, and
occupational dialect, gender distinctions, and bilingualism.

•Anthropological-linguistics:--Human history.

•Computational-linguistics:--Computer and language inspection that gives rise to the use of electronic
digital computers.

•Applied-linguistics:---Education such as language teachingg, translation, and speech therapy.

•Neuro-linguistics:--Brain and functioning of the brain.

•Cognitive-linguistics:--Cognition and methods included in reading (late 16th century: from medieval
Latin cognitivus, from cognit- ‘known’, from the verb cognoscere ).

•Discourse-linguistics:--how a sentence is spoken and written.

....Moududul Hoque