I am confused between MA in Applied Linguistics and MA in Linguistics course, what is the difference between the two? I want to know the subjects taught in both these courses.
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The key difference between linguistics and applied linguistics is that linguistics is the scientific study of the structure and development of language in general or of particular languages whereas applied linguistics is the branch of linguistics focusing on the practical applications of language studies.
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It involves language form, language meaning, and language in context. Basically, it studies how language is formed, how it functions and how people use it. Linguistics also explores various language-related phenomena such as language variation, language acquisition, language change over time and, language storage and process in the human brain.
Applied linguistics is an interdisciplinary field which identifies, investigates, and offers solutions to language-related real-life problems. Some of the academic fields related to applied linguistics are education, psychology, communication research, anthropology, and sociology.
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The key difference between linguistics and applied linguistics is that linguistics is the scientific study of the structure and development of language in general or of particular languages whereas applied linguistics is the branch of linguistics focusing on the practical applications of language studies.
M.A in Applied Linguistic syllabus :-
- Phonology and Morphology.
- Lexicographic programming.
- Computational Syntax and Computational Semantics.
- Corpus linguistics.
- Acoustic phonetics and speech processing.
- Advanced Syntax programming in Perl.
- Machine translation.
- Language Technology.
M.A in Linguistic syllabus :-
- phonetics
- phonology
- morphology
- syntax
- semantics
- pragmatics
- discourse and conversation analysis
- typology
- historical linguistics
- sociolinguistics
- cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics
- computational and corpus linguistics
- field linguistics
- the documentation and description of endangered languages.
