What exactly does linguistics include

Linguistics in a broad sense includes philology, the study of language at a certain period of time, called *** time linguistics;

(1) Linguistics (linguistic) is the study of human language as the object of study, the scope of the exploration of the nature of the language, its function, structure, use and historical development, as well as other issues related to language. Linguistics is generally defined as a scientific and systematic theoretical study of language. And language is the most important tool of human communication and the direct reality of thought .

(2) The main object of study in modern linguistics is language and writing. Linguistics is the study of: (1) the structure of language (2) phonology (3) word formation (4) syntax (5) semantics

(3) There are five common meanings of language: (1) the act of uttering a specific sentence in a specific situation; (2) the specific way of speaking of a specific speaker, also called the individual dialect (idiolect); (3) the reference to a specific variant of language; (4) the abstraction system distilled from the speech act; (5) the abstraction system of the speech act; and (6) the abstraction system of the speech act, which is the most important part of the speech act. distilled abstraction system; (5) the abstraction system that characterizes all human languages***.

Material Expansion:

The study of changes in language over time is called ephemeral linguistics; the comprehensive study of many languages in an attempt to find out the ****same laws in them is called general linguistics; the use of linguistic knowledge in practice is called applied linguistics; the traceability of the kinships of certain languages through comparisons of phonology and morphology is called historical comparative linguistics. The study of the relatives of certain languages through the comparison of phonetics and word forms is called historical comparative linguistics; the discovery of certain ****similar phenomena in various human languages by comparative methods is called typological linguistics; and the comparison of the similarities and differences between two languages for the purpose of solving the problems of teaching or translation is called comparative linguistics.

The history of linguistics is very ancient. The earliest human study of language began with the interpretation of ancient documents, and it was studied for the purpose of studying philosophy, history and literature. China produced elementary school, including writing, phonetics and exegesis, during the Han Dynasty. In India and Greece, grammar was established between the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. Modern linguistics was established in the early 18th century, and with the discovery by Western linguists of similarities between Indo-European languages and Sanskrit, historical comparative linguistics arose, aiming to find the primitive languages of various languages.

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