Sociology/Sociolinguistics Theoretician Mediator Practitioner Table 2: Areas of Linguistics Theoretical linguistics Interdisciplinary linguistics Applied linguistics Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics to Phonology, Sociolinguistics, language education, Morphology, Pragmatics, Applied linguistics to Syntax & structural Discourse analysis, foreign language grammar, Computational [and education, Semantics, Translation studies, corpus] linguistics. Historical linguistics. Lexicography. Task 4: Now look at another way of categorizing of linguistic study and think about the differences with the categorisation in Table 2. Table 3: Ways of Studying Language Synchronic study of language Diachronic of language Study of the formal properties of language. The history of language. Study of meaning in and/or through The study of language birth, death, language. development and change over time. The study of the use of language (by users / in texts). Psycholinguistic study of language: Psycholinguistic study of language: The Language acquisition development of cognition / knowledge How language is acquired by human The operations of the mind/brain and the beings. body. How language is learned by groups or How information is stored and retained. individuals. How meaning is perceived and How language competence and literacy are transmitted. developed. Language and the affective domain / How bilinguals or plurilinguals function. emotion. Sociolinguistic study of language: Language Sociolinguistic study of language: use Language in society How language is used by social Regional and social varieties of language. agents/subjects/individuals. Attitudes to language. How language operates in different Conflict over language(s). sociocultural contexts.
Sociology/Sociolinguistics Theoretician Mediator Practitioner Table 2: Areas of Linguistics Theoretical linguistics Interdisciplinary linguistics Applied linguistics Phonology, Morphology, Syntax & structural grammar, Semantics, Historical linguistics. Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics, Discourse analysis, Computational [and corpus] linguistics. Applied Linguistics to language education, Applied linguistics to foreign language education, Translation studies, Lexicography. Task 4: Now look at another way of categorizing of linguistic study and think about the differences with the categorisation in Table 2. Table 3: Ways of Studying Language Synchronic study of language Diachronic of language Study of the formal properties of language. Study of meaning in and/or through language. The study of the use of language (by users / in texts). The history of language. The study of language birth, death, development and change over time. Psycholinguistic study of language: Language acquisition Psycholinguistic study of language: The development of cognition / knowledge How language is acquired by human beings. How language is learned by groups or individuals. How language competence and literacy are developed. How bilinguals or plurilinguals function. The operations of the mind/brain and the body. How information is stored and retained. How meaning is perceived and transmitted. Language and the affective domain / emotion. Sociolinguistic study of language: Language use Sociolinguistic study of language: Language in society How language is used by social agents/subjects/individuals. How language operates in different sociocultural contexts. Regional and social varieties of language. Attitudes to language. Conflict over language(s).
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