An Introduction to Applied Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language and mainly concerns itself with describing and understanding language. It was started by the Indian scholar Pānini in the sixth century BC and formal linguistics developed in Ancient Greece and China sometime in the fourth century B.C. The many areas of study in linguistics tackle everything from meaning, semantics, and stylistics, to theories proposed by Norm Chomsky on competence and performance (individual capacity for language versus its use in different contexts and groups).
Applied linguistics take those lessons and apply them to real-world problems, from language education to translation, and further to natural language processing. Applied ...
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