linguistics: Other Areas of Linguistic Study

In contrast to theoretical schools of linguistics, workers in applied linguistics in the latter part of the 20th cent. have produced much work in the areas of foreign-language teaching and of bilingual education in the public schools (in the United States this has primarily involved Spanish and, in the Southwest, some Native American languages in addition to English). In addition, such subfields as pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and psycholinguistics have gained importance.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Other Areas of Linguistic Study
• Transformational-Generative Grammar
• Structural Linguistics
• Early Linguistics
• Bibliography

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