Potential Areas of Research in Linguistics at Present | Short Exam Notes

HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

• History of specific languages - language changes.
• Synchronic - many languages at a given time.
• Diachronic - one, or many, through the time.
• Synchronic - shifted to - Ferdinand De Saussure.

ECO-LINGUISTICS

• Role of language - life sustaining interactions of humans and other species.
• Humans, language - not only as part of society, but of the larger Eco-system.
• How to address key-linguistic issues.

SOCIO-LINGUISTICS

• How language is shaped by social factors.
• Dialects / Registers

DEVELOPMENTAL LINGUISTICS

• Acquisition of language.
• Childhood to Adulthood

NEURO-LINGUISTICS

• Genetical and Nervous setup and physiology.
• Mental abilities of language influenced by the nervous system.