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A list of Citizendium articles, and planned articles, about Linguistics.
See also changes related to Linguistics, or pages that link to Linguistics or to this page or whose text contains "Linguistics".

Parent topics

  • Science [r]: The organized body of knowledge based on non–trivial refutable concepts that can be verified or rejected on the base of observation and experimentation [e]
  • Social science [r]: Any of a number of academic disciplines which study human social behavior, institutions and relations. [e]
  • Language [r]: A type of communication system, commonly used in linguistics, computer science and other fields to refer to different systems, including 'natural language' in humans, programming languages run on computers, and so on. [e]
  • What is language? [r]: The definition of language - what counts as a language and what doesn't - is a difficult philosophical topic, deserving an article in its own right. [e]

Subtopics

  • Grammar (linguistics) [r]: The structural rules that govern the composition of sentences, phrases, and words in any language; alternatively, the system of language itself, i.e. the principles common to all languages. [e]
  • Natural language [r]: A communication system based on sequences of acoustic, visual or tactile symbols that serve as units of meaning. [e]
  • Biolinguistics [r]: An interdisciplinary field that explores human natural language’s fundamental properties, development in individuals, use in thinking and communicating, brain implementation, genetic underpinnings, and evolutionary origins. [e]

Subdisciplines

Core areas

  • Language Evolution (book synopsis) [r]: Synopsis and commentary on book by M.H. Christiansen and S. Kirby, essays on language evolution by multiple authors (2004) [e]
  • Morphology [r]: The study of word structure; the study of such patterns of word-formation across and within languages, and attempts to explicate formal rules reflective of the knowledge of the speakers of those languages. [e]
  • Phonetics [r]: Study of speech sounds and their perception, production, combination, and description. [e]
  • Phonology [r]: In linguistics, the study of the system used to represent language, including sounds in spoken language and hand movements in sign language. [e]
  • Pragmatics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in use or the study of meaning as it arises from language occurring in context. [e]
  • Semantics [r]: The subfield of the study of language which focuses on meaning. [e]
  • Syntax [r]: The study of the rules, or 'patterned relations', that govern the way words combine to form phrases and phrases to form sentences. [e]

Fields of linguistics

  • Cognitive linguistics [r]: School of linguistics that understands language creation, learning, and usage as best explained by reference to human cognition in general. [e]
  • Creolistics [r]: The study of creole and pidgin languages. [e]
  • Sociolinguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics concerned with language in social contexts - how people use language, how it varies, how it contributes to users' sense of identity, etc. [e]
  • Evolutionary linguistics [r]: Branch of linguistics that concerns itself with how the human faculty of language evolved; multidisciplinary field involving neurolinguistics, cognitive science, anthropology and others. [e]
  • Psycholinguistics [r]: Study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language. [e]
  • Neurolinguistics [r]: Add brief definition or description

Language acquisition

Applied linguistics

Linguists

Notable figures

Other researchers

History of linguistics

Descriptions of language

Attitudes to language and linguistic study


Other related topics

Communication and discourse

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