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A human being uses language as his main tool to communicate, send messages, understand utterances and keeping his social interactions alive, it what makes us different from an animal, it is the unique ability to control our language and having a variety of expression and thinking, language is the language of thoughts. Linguistics is concerned with discovering and defining the form and structure of human languages. All normal human children learn the language (or languages) that they hear around them. having a language or acquiring is a long process that starts from the day we were born, it starts with the first sound that we hear and stored in our minds, The study of language acquisition is the study of how and when children get a command of the thing linguistics sets out to define. it is how we acquire the ability to produce and understand language. Acquiring a language has stages, these stages have their unique characteristics, period and background, these stages are: From v...

Meaning is what related to a certain context there is no meaning without a context, that what makes human's ability so unique and special from the other species, a meaning of a word or a concept can change according to context, culture and situation, the study of such meaning is called ''Pragmatics" In other words, Pragmatics deals with the meaning whether it is a contextual one, a hidden one ( a fuzzy one) or a complex one, deeper than just being a literal one, the word pragmatics derives via Latin pragmaticus from the Greek πραγματικός (pragmatikos), meaning amongst others "fit for action", Philosophers at that time like Aristotle tend to think about language from different aspects, meaning was an important aspect. Furthermore, Pragmatics tend to answer the question ''why''? in this respect, it tends to explain why individuals have a certain choice of words, why this set of words have been chosen to send a message or to deliver an id...

Nowadays, this world is witnessing the rise of many diseases, there are thousands of them, some of them can be deadly, some can be harmful to your mental state and some can even affect your language, this latter is called aphasia ( a language disorder), aphasia has a lot of types, it has various causes (trauma, brain injury, etc.) and it can diagnosed slightly, depending on the situation Aphasia is any disease that can cause language impairment or disorder, when talking about this kind of disorder, it is basically a field that’s is called neurolinguistics (neurology + linguistics) and psycholinguistics to some extent, Neurolinguistics is the study of the relationship between the brain and language. Furthermore, our brain, the most complex part of our body, has what is called localization, it means that every part of the brain has a specific purpose or function, that is to say, that there are for example some parts that are responsible for your movements (hippocampus), so...

today, we have around 7.000 languages around the world, each with its own words, grammar, vocabulary and structure. The scientific study of language is called linguistics, it is how languages work, how different elements are combined together and how they have been identified as meaningful elements, check  previous article ( Linguistics: An introduction) . Semantics is the 3rd level in linguistics which studies meaning.  The term semantics was coined by the French philologist Michel Bréal in the late 19th century, where he connected it with the term semiotics ( brought by the famous swiss philologist and semiotician Ferdinand De Saussure , Semiotics is the study of signs " signifier and signified") Meaning is that essential aspect of a language, it is the interpretation of the received word, symbol and sounds. Semantics deals with the understanding of the direct (clear) meaning of a word or combined words that form a sentence ( a sentence is an abstract level in l...

Hello everyone, this is my first publication, it is a small introduction to a field that I am interested in and looking forward to what can I bring and learn, Enjoy reading. When you hear the word linguistics, this idea that comes right to you is: What is linguistics? What is it about?  Let’s start by explaining how philosophers thought, linguistics now is the scientific study of language, it started as a philosophy ( Linguistics was at that time known by Philology) which is the study of the written and oral language and its history. According to linguistics, Language is divided into 6 levels which are: 1-Phonetics: studies the cognitive aspects of speech sounds 2-Phonology: studies the physical aspects of speech sounds 3-Morphology: studies the formation of words 4-Syntax: Studies of the formation of the sentences 5-Pragmatics: Studies of the meaning of the sentence 6-Semantics: Studies of meaning within the context Now and through days, linguistics had a lot of i...