Linguistics studies the structure, sound, meaning, use and learning of languages. The cores usually include phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, later extension socialistics, psycholinguistics, language acquision, fieldwork, general linguistics, etc.
I. What do you read mainly?
UCL Linguistics BA places phonetics/phonology, mophology/syntax, semantics/pragmatics at the centre; McGill also includes theoretical, executive, general linguistics, language acquisition, fieldwork, socialistics and language change.
Two, Linguistics and Modern Languages.
Modern Languages primarily trains specific language abilities and combines cultural, literary and regional studies; Linguistics uses "language itself" as the subject of research. You don't have to know a lot of languages, but the point is to be able to analyze the language system.
III. EQUIPMENT OF STUDENTS
- Interest in language rules, sound, sentence style and meaning
- He likes analysis, classification and reasoning.
- Interest in bilingualism, speech, AI language technology
- "Research methods" or "experiment"
IV. How to prepare for high school
English, Languages, Psychology, Mathematics, and Computer Science may be helpful. Different schools do not necessarily require a specific foreign language background and should therefore continue to look at them on a school-by-school basis.
V. Common career
Language technology、NLP、speech technology、translation、education、research、communication、language policy； In order to pursue such specialties as speech-language pathology, further professional degrees and qualifications are usually required.
