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is the scientific study of language. It involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context, as well as an analysis of the social, cultural, historical, and political factors that influence language.
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is a subfield of linguistics and semiotics that studies how context contributes to meaning.
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is the study of the patterns of sounds in a language and across languages
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is the subfield that studies meaning. It can address meaning at the levels of words, phrases, sentences, or larger units of discourse
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is a branch of linguistics that studies how humans make and perceive sounds, or in the case of sign languages, the equivalent aspects of sign.
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is the smallest meaningful unit in a language
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the principal method of human communication, consisting of words used in a structured and conventional way and conveyed by speech, writing, or gesture
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is the set of structural rules governing the composition of clauses, phrases and words in a natural language.
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is the set of rules, principles, and processes that govern the structure of sentences (sentence structure) in a given language, usually including word order
