What we mean by Linguistics? the answer is here, let's start by introducing what is not linguistics :linguistics is not -Comparative Philology,not -the learning of many languages, not-Literary Criticism ,nor-a Traditional Study of Grammar.
Now WHAT IS LINGUISTICS ?
Linguistics interested in :- The study of languages &-obtain information about the nature of language
So Linguistics is the Scientific Study of Language( whe Language =languages and language)
Its central branches are :Sound, Structure and Meaning,and their disciplines,
For Sound we have:Phonetics and Phonology
For Structure of words and sentences we have:Morphology and Syntax
and finally for Meaning we have : Semantics and Pragmatics
athers ,we have psyco-,computational-,socio-, forensic-, clinical- ,neuro- ,and corpus-linguistics
I hope you enjoyed this little course about linguistics