INTRODUCTION TO

APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Video Lesson 1

Linguistics vs Applied Linguistics

Mgs. Nina Nesterenko

Linguistics is a comparatively new science, or new,

at least, in the form it has taken in recent years.

Its a scientific study of language.

Its goal is
describe the varieties of languages and explain
the unconscious knowledge all speakers have of
their language

Linguistics the study of

language in general or of some
particular language or languages
It is the science of language,
including phonetics, phonology,
morphology, syntax, and semantics
It is the study of the structure,
development, changes, etc, of a
particular language and its
relationship to other languages

Linguistics is subdivided into:

applied

historical

field of study that identifies, investigates,

and offers solutions to language related
problems

It can be applied to all

aspects of language use.
It deals with mother, foreign,
second language acquisition

Applied Linguistics
describes the
language, and
teaches how it is
learned and used

LINGUISTICS

APPLLIED
LINGUISTICS

EDUCATION

A.L. extends into such practical application fields as as:

Clinical Linguistics (analysis

and treatment of language
disorders)

Language Acquisition
( L1 and L2)

Teaching and Learning Foreign

Languages (developing foreign
language teaching methods)
Educational Linguistics (the use
of the mother tongue in school)

Lexicography ( theory and

practice in organizing dictionaries;
methods and techniques for
creating dictionaries

Computational
Linguistics (the use of
computers in language
analysis and use)

Machine Translation
( computerized translation )

ASR Automatic
Speech
Recognition

Language assessment
(to measure student
learning of languages, to
determine what a student
knows and/or can do and
how well instruction is
proceeding ).
Forensic Linguistics (the
application of linguistic
knowledge, methods and
insights to the context of law,
language, crime investigation,
trial, experts, court, evidence,
law, jurislinguistique )

Data Mining (the process of processing

large volumes of data usually stored in a
database and searching for patterns and
relationships within that data. It is automatic
extraction and processing of data )

Language pedagogy
(theory of developing
teaching methods )
Psycholinguistics (the study of the
psychological factors that enable
humans to acquire, use, comprehend
and produce speech , relationship
between language and human
behavior)

Internet linguistics ( It
studies new language styles and
forms that have arisen under the
influence of the Internet and Short
Message Service (SMS)

Sociolinguistics
(study of the link
between language
and society)

Neurolinguistics (describes
the application of linguistic
theories to the classification and
analysis of acquired disorders of
language or speech in patients
with brain damage )

Language
interpretation (facilitating
of oral or sign language
communication between
users of different languages)

Corpus linguistics(the study of language as

expressed in samples (corpora) or "real world"
text ; it is approach to deriving a set of abstract
rules by which a natural language is governed or
else relates to another language)
Text Analysis
( written
discourse)
Language,
culture, and
pragmatics
( cultural aspects
in language
teaching in
intercultural
communication )

Language Control /
Dialectology
(study of linguistic
dialect, variations in
language and is based
primarily on geographic
distribution ;
divergence of two local
dialects from a
common ancestor and
synchronic variation )

Sociology
(the scientific study of
human social behavior
and the study of
society)

Education
(teaching, learning,
acquisition,
assessment

Applied
Linguistics
Linguistics
(The study of the
nature, structure, and
variation of language,
including phonetics,
phonology,
morphology and the
study of human
speech, language
form, language
meaning , and
language in context

Psychology
(the science of mind

Anthropology
( the scientific study

of the origin and

behavior of man,
including
the
physical, social, and
cultural development
of
societies
and
cultures ).

and behavior, and

the application of
such knowledge of
various spheres of
human activity, such
as education,
health, occupational
and employment
services

Difference between Linguistics and

Applied Linguistics
Linguistics is a science that studies languages and has some
subfields:
PHONETICS - it deals with the sounds of language, how they are
produced
PHONOLOGY it deals with how the sounds are organized
MORPHOLOGY it deals with how sounds are put together to form
words, and everything related to word formation
SYNTAX it deals with how sentences are formed
SEMANTICS it deals with the meaning of words, sentences, and
texts
PRAGMATICS studies how people comprehend and produce a
communicative act or speech act in a concrete speech situation

Applied linguistics can be applied to all aspects

of language use.
It deals with mother, foreign, second language
acquisition.
It examined the relationship between language
and such areas as law, communication, media,
social and educational
psychology and
education in general.
Domain of applied linguistics approaches to
text, language, literacy, research, language
teaching and learning and translation.

To be continued!....
Thank you!