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LINGUISTICS AND THE COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE
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1. PHONOLOGY
4. SEMANTICS
Studies the meaning in words, phrases or clauses, it relates to:
- Lexical meaning: meanings related to the outside world.
- Grammatical meaning: relates to the grammar of the sentence.
The study of the speech sounds of a particular language.
5. PRAGMATICS
Is the study of the functions of language and its use in context.
Conclusion:
A subdivision of phonology is :
Language not only serves as a way of communication, in reality it has different functions, including expressing emotions, social ties, and performance of an action.
PHONETICS: the study of the speech sound of human language in general.
- Speech is a continuum of sound that is possible to break into different types of sounds such as consonants, vowels, and semivowels.
LINGUISTICS AND THE COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE
LINGUISTICS AND THE COMPONENTS OF LANGUAGE
Linguistics is defined as the study of language systems, and is divided into five components.
2. MORPHOLOGY
Study of the structure of words on a particular language and of their classification.
International Phonetic Alphabet IPA
Morphology considers:
3. SYNTAX
The writing system in English does not provide with a correlation between oral sound and written symbol, therefore the IPA is used to identify specific sounds.
- How sounds combine with meaning (suffix, prefix, root), for example RE-MIND-ER.
- compounding, for example un-happy.
- How words are grouped into classes.
- Parts of speech.
- Studies the arrangement of words into larger units.
- The types of sentences such as commands, questions.
- The types of clauses, for example adverbial clauses.
- And types of phrases such as prepositional or verbal phrases.