Linguistics

Broadly conceived, linguistics is the scientific study of human language, and a linguist is someone who engages in this study. (Lay people sometimes use the term linguistician, but as Aitchison 2003 points out, this is "too much of a tongue-twister to become generally accepted.")

Interdisciplinary linguistic research

• anthropological linguistics
• applied linguistics
• cognitive science
• comparative linguistics
• computational linguistics
• natural language processing
• speaker recognition (authentication)
• speech processing
• speech recognition
• speech synthesis
• critical discourse analysis
• cryptanalysis
• decipherment
• evolutionary linguistics
• forensic linguistics
• glottometrics
• historical linguistics
• language acquisition
• neurolinguistics
• orthography
• psycholinguistics
• second language acquisition
• sociolinguistics
• stratificational linguistics
• text linguistics
• writing systems