But in fact there are two kinds of linguistics. One discusses the structure of language, and is more and more scientific. The other is sociolinguistics: it discusses how language differs as it is used by people of different genders, classes, social groups and ages, and it looks at how language connects to education, culture and the media.
答：一般人對語言學的刻板印象是它很枯燥，其實語言學有兩種，一種討論語言結構，越來越走向科學化；另一種則是語言社會學，探討不同性別、階級、族群、年齡的語言差異，以及語言跟傳媒、教育、文化的關係。