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Inter-disciplines and applied linguistics. Inter-disciplines: Sociolinguistics. looks at how language is used in a social context, e.g. language use and social class language use and gender language use and occupation bilingualism code switching. Inter-disciplines: Psycholinguistics .
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Inter-disciplines: Sociolinguistics • looks at how language is used in a social context, e.g. • language use and social class • language use and gender • language use and occupation • bilingualism • code switching
Inter-disciplines:Psycholinguistics • Psycholinguistics • looks at how language is acquired by humans • how speech is created in real time • how speech is perceived • how language is stored in the brain • how vocabulary is accessed
Inter-disciplines:Neurolinguistics • looks at the neurology of language • brain imaging
Applied areas of linguistics • creating writing systems for languages which do not have them • education • teaching children the language they already know • teaching English as a foreign or second language
More applied areas of linguistics • speech and language therapy • developmentally disordered speech • acquired speech disorders • computing • natural language interfaces • machine translation • speech recognition • speech synthesis
More applied areas of linguistics • international and intranational relations • international languages • standard language • national languages policy • translation services