Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Linguistics] From University of Otago

Consequently, questions about language, and particularly the nature of its structure, use and development, have engaged scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Linguistics is the discipline that addressses these and other related questions directly.

Linguistics comprises different areas of specialisation:

• phonetics (the study of speech sounds)

• phonology (the study of sound systems)

• morphology (the study of the internal structure of words)

• syntax (the study of how words are combined into sentences)

• semantics (the study of meaning)

• pragmatics (the study of meaning in relation to the way language is used)

• socio-linguistics (the study of language in its social context)

• historical linguistics (the study of language change)

• universal typology (the study of language universals and differences)

• acquisition (the study of how first and second languages are learned)

• applied linguistics (the application of linguistics to language teaching and other professional activities)