The Many Branches Of Linguistics

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[NameExplain]

What's your favourite branch of linguistics?

[jeranuspeedruns]

I love linguistics as a whole, despite being not that great at learning languages (trust me I've tried) I still love the idea of learning how a language functions and where they came from, it's just astonishing the more you look into it.

[peterthompson]

Historical linguistics makes me tingle

[ChristopherSmith-ilfo]

I'll be cheeky and pay some tution for this lesson.

[schnuder]

I usually would not get this pedantic, but it would be here if anywhere was the right place to do so. As a research psychology and neuroscientist who's done research in language, I and many of my colleagues would consider psycholinguistics and neurolinguistics different subfields (with some overlap). Psycholinguistics focuses on the psychological processes and terminology, such as how we learn new languages and how many words, like names, we can keep in our working memory. In contrast, neurolinguistics focuses on language and our brains' biology. Examples include which parts of the brain are involved in different aspects of language and how neuronal processes play a role in language, including how specific neurological disorders and injuries affect language use.

[flamencoprof]

In the early Sixties, when I was 13 the Appendices of Tolkein's Lord of the Rings trilogy were a revelation to me. I realised that languages and alphabets could be analysed and explained. It sparked a lifelong interest.

[fermintenava]

Coming from a linguistics student, that was an overall great overview for different branches, and I can't wait for you take a deeper dive eventually.

Maybe you can get a little deeper into semiotics (the study of signs) or into the terms Ferdinand Saussure came up with for these ("langue" for language as a system of rules, "parole" for the concrete use of language in practice, "langage" for the common human way of communication in comparison to animals).

I know these topics are a little more academical than your audience is expecting, but they're taught in basic linguistic for a reason ^^'

[myssie-theanimedevourer]

I love linguistics! I became fascinated by it because of the movie My Fair Lady.

[Swedishfinnpolymath]

I have followed your channel for some while now and really enjoy your work. I love languages and have recently started to restudy them after giving up a couple of years ago. Thanks to you I'm going to look into comparative lingustics since the major romance languages and Romanian are on my list of languages that I want to study.

[floramew]

I would love to see a video on the language of math!

[brianedwards]

The Rainbow Gum (Eucalyptus deglupta) has loud bark if ever there was such a thing.

[brianedwards]

Professor Morbius was the philologist on the Bellerophon expedition to Altair. In his attempts to understand their language he used a thought amplification machine and unwittingly unleashed the power of an ancient planet sized machine against his friends. Linguistics is a dangerous game.

[Hyblup]

Glad my memory of these areas remain, my favourite branch would probably have to be morphology, infixes are indeed curious things.

[AllanLimosin]

My favorite linguistic fields are those that collide with other major sciences like with sociology, medicine or music theory. They are so interesting to dive into.

[SasquachPL]

I would love a video on the Normandy codename topic proposed by Randy van Halen!

[latecraft]

Sad to see no one here mention Linguistic Typology. I guess it is similar in some sense to comparative linguistics but still quite distinct and definitely my area of interest!

[vikrantdogra]

A video right up my street as a Masters graduate in German Linguistics! Technically, #anythingspokenisalanguage

[thcenturytunes]

NGL, I geeked out hard - You might consider a Name Explain U

[vicentefigueroa]

A fascinating topic, thanks! Certainly this video covers the main branches, some other fields I think would be fun to explore (but perhaps too niche to include in a broad taxonomy) are formal language theory, semiotics/semiology, propositional and predicate logic language systems (and math), and other philosophical approaches to information systems. Oh and some little extra things that don't belong here but are fun nonetheless, animal communication and conlangs!

[lawden]

I ponder about the relationship between linguistics and geography