General Linguistics

Presented by:

Mohd Rashid Ansari

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Email: m.rashid0597@gmail.com
General Linguistics

 Concept
 Classification
Concept

 It approaches language as a general

 Shaping general pattern of language
 Seeks to formulate the natural or universal
principals of language
 Covers the language faculty and architectures
of grammar
 Synchronic and diachronic study of languages
 General pattern in acquivistion of language by
children and adults
consept

 Relationship with social and cultural

structure
 Pattern in cognition and brain
 Limited to human language
 Classifications
 Historical Linguistics
 Comparative Linguistics
 Descriptive Linguistics
 Applied Linguistics
Historical Linguistics

 the study of the history and development of

languages
Historical Linguistics
focuses on
Comparative Linguistics

 Comparative
linguistics (originally comparative philology)
is a branch of historical linguistics that is
concerned with comparing languages to
establish their historical relatedness.
Descriptive Linguistics

 It is the work of analyzing and describing how

language is spoken (or how it was spoken in
the past) by a group of people in a speech
community. 
Applied Linguistics

 the branch of linguistics concerned with

practical applications of language studies, for
example language teaching, translation, and
speech therapy.
References:

 www.wikipedia.org
 www.mydefinition.tk
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