The Benefits Of Studying
Linguistics
Linguistics
is the scientific
study of language,
specifically language form,
language meaning,
and language in context. According to Merriam Webster, linguistics is the study
of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of
language. From
studying linguistic we will learn about phonetics, phonology, morphology,
syntax, semantics, pragmatic , etc cause they are several
branches of Linguistics. Do you ever think about the benefits of
studying linguistics? Here I would like to tell you about the benefits of it. Studying
linguistics has many advantages including in oral speaking or in writing. The
first, In oral speaking we need Linguistics in order to avoid miss understanding
because some English words have similar writing and pronunciation, such as : love vs laugh , sea vs see , down
vs dawn, word vs world etc. By studying phonology and phonetics, we will
understand the way to pronounce the words (vocabularies) and we will know how
to make different pronunciation among them. The second, studying semantics and
pragmatics will help us in learning the explicit and implicit meaning of
sentence and utterances. Usually to make the conversation doesn’t seem to the point, people use other words to
say what they mean, but sometimes other people are not sensitive in catching
the hidden meaning of it because some of them just catch the meaning literally.
Of course it makes the speaking partner grumble. But in semantics and pragmatic
we will learn about those cases and it will upgrade our sensitivities. The
third, syntax will help us become better in grammar, although grammar is not
the most important thing in oral English, but it’s very important in written
English. For example when we want to do TOEFL test , we should know about the
grammar because structure is one of the branches of the TOEFL test, and in syntax we will learn about this case.
Eventually,
linguistics is very necessary to be learned. It has
a lot of benefits, some of them are avoiding miss understanding about the
pronunciation through phonetic, upgrading the sensitivities through semantic
and pragmatic, and getting better in grammar through syntax. I am sure, that still there are a lot of other
benefits that I can’t mention one by one because in fact there are much more
benefits in the real life.
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