1. Inter-disciplines and applied linguistics

2. 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

3. 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

4. Inter-disciplines: Neurolinguistics looks at the neurology of language brain imaging

5. 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

6. 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

7. More applied areas of linguistics international and intranational relations –international languages –standard language –national languages policy –translation services