INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED LINGUISTICS Video Lesson 1 Linguistics vs Applied Linguistics Mgs. Nina Nesterenko

What is Linguistics? It’s a scientific study of language. Its goal is Linguistics is a comparatively new science, or new, at least, in the form it has taken in recent years. It’s a scientific study of language. Its goal is describe the varieties of languages and explain the unconscious knowledge all speakers have of their language

What is Linguistisc? Linguistics – the study of language in general or of some particular language or languages It is the science of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics It is the study of the structure, development, changes, etc, of a particular language and its relationship to other languages

Linguistics is subdivided into: applied comparative theoretical geographical descriptive historical

What is APPLIED LINGUISTICS ? field of study that identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language related problems Applied Linguistics describes the language, and teaches how it is learned and used It can be applied to all aspects of language use. It deals with mother, foreign, second language acquisition

LINGUISTICS EDUCATION APPLLIED LINGUISTICS

What is APPLIED LINGUISTICS. A. L What is APPLIED LINGUISTICS ? A.L. extends into such practical application fields as as: Clinical Linguistics (analysis and treatment of language disorders) Language Acquisition ( L1 and L2) Teaching and Learning Foreign Languages (developing foreign language teaching methods) Educational Linguistics (the use of the mother tongue in school)

Lexicography ( theory and practice in organizing dictionaries; methods and techniques for creating dictionaries Computational Linguistics (the use of computers in language analysis and use) Machine Translation ( computerized translation ) ASR –Automatic Speech Recognition

Language assessment (to measure student learning of languages, to determine what a student knows and/or can do and how well instruction is proceeding ). Forensic Linguistics (the application of linguistic knowledge, methods and insights to the context of law, language, crime investigation, trial, experts, court, evidence, law, jurislinguistique )

Data Mining – (the process of processing large volumes of data usually stored in a database and searching for patterns and relationships within that data. It is automatic extraction and processing of data ) Language pedagogy (theory of developing teaching methods ) Psycholinguistics (the study of the psychological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce speech , relationship between language and human behavior)

Internet linguistics ( It studies new language styles and forms that have arisen under the influence of the Internet and Short Message Service (SMS) Sociolinguistics (study of the link between language and society) Neurolinguistics (describes the application of linguistic theories to the classification and analysis of acquired disorders of language or speech in patients with brain damage ) Language interpretation (facilitating of oral or sign language communication between users of different languages)

Corpus linguistics(the study of language as expressed in samples (corpora) or "real world" text ; it is approach to deriving a set of abstract rules by which a natural language is governed or else relates to another language) Text Analysis ( written discourse) Language Control / Dialectology (study of linguistic dialect, variations in language and is based primarily on geographic distribution ; divergence of two local dialects from a common ancestor and synchronic variation ) Language, culture, and pragmatics ( cultural aspects in language teaching in intercultural communication )

(teaching, learning, acquisition, assessment Sociology (the scientific study of human social behavior and the study of society) Education (teaching, learning, acquisition, assessment Applied Linguistics Psychology (the science of mind and behavior, and the application of such knowledge of various spheres of human activity, such as education, health, occupational and employment services Linguistics (The study of the nature, structure, and variation of language, including phonetics, phonology, morphology and the study of human speech, language form, language meaning , and language in context Anthropology ( the scientific study of the origin and behavior of man, including the physical, social, and cultural development of societies and cultures ).

Difference between Linguistics and Applied Linguistics Linguistics is a science that studies languages and has some subfields: PHONETICS - it deals with the sounds of language, how they are produced PHONOLOGY – it deals with how the sounds are organized MORPHOLOGY – it deals with how sounds are put together to form words, and everything related to word formation SYNTAX – it deals with how sentences are formed SEMANTICS – it deals with the meaning of words, sentences, and texts PRAGMATICS –studies how people comprehend and produce a communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation

Applied linguistics can be applied to all aspects of language use. It deals with mother, foreign, second language acquisition. It examined the relationship between language and such areas as law, communication, media, social and educational psychology and education in general. Domain of applied linguistics – approaches to text, language, literacy, research, language teaching and learning and translation. APPLIED LINGUISTICS

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