Subfields

Description

Psycho Linguistics or Psychology of Language

the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects

Socio Linguistics

the study of language in relation to social factors

Computational Linguistics

the study of computational modeling of natural language

Philology - Historical-Comparative Linguistics

branch of historical linguistics that is concerned with comparing languages to establish their historical relatedness

Dialectology

the study of dialects

Diachronic Linguistics

the study of how a language evolves over a period of time

Applied Linguistics

the study of language-related real-life problems