I am Prakarshi, I wanted to know about Linguistics in English language. Is it a nice field to have in academia? Also may I know the basic things that are covered in. I am interested to learn it but I am not sure of going with it. Please address my concern.
Hello Prakarshi,
The field of Linguistics is one of the most dynamic and budding fields of study. The prospect of research in this field is enormous and has funds that any good institution will be willing to provide to you if the research topic is good. It is not an easy subject to study as you will have to make use of your mathematical, and analytical skills and if you are good at it, linguistics will automatically become your favorite subject.
Sub-fields of Linguistics that you will have to study are Phonetics, Morphology, Phonology, semantics, pragmatics, syntax, etc. Different branches of Linguistics include Socio-linguistics, Neuro-linguistics, Computational-linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, etc.
If you are interested in this field of study then I would suggest that you should definitely go with it, there are many good universities that provide courses in Linguistics and the best among them is EFLU, Hyderabad.
Hope this helps
