What is Linguistics?
Linguistics is the study of language as a system from both a scientific and social approach. It incorporates many disciplines, some of which correspond to the levels on which language is organized.
Phonetics is the general study of speech sounds; how they are produced and how they are received.
Phonology is the study of a language's sound system: the organization of sounds, their relationships to one another, and sound changes.
Morphology is the study of word structure and how words form.
Syntax considers the structure of phrases, clauses, and sentences.
Semantics is the study of meaning, the relationship between linguistic signs and the things or ideas they represent.
Pragmatics explains how we manage to communicate with language.