âOur mission is to educate and empower people to engage in hands-on democracy in order to individually and collectively take strategic actions to identify and address the root causes of local, state, federal, and global issues of social and economic injustice and concerns.â â Occupy Los Angeles, âCivic Engagementâ website.
Professionals with a degree in linguistics have a comprehensive understanding of language theory, are capable of language analysis, and are skilled in analysis of sound systems such as phonics. Experienced linguists can discern grammar patterns and application without actually knowing the actual language they hear.
Linguistic research is commonly applied to areas such as language education, lexicography, translation, language planning, which involves governmental policy implementation related to language use, and natural language processing. Applied linguistics has been argued to be something of a misnomer.