​Language wise

Career choices in linguistics are governed by the branches one wishes to specialise in, says Saumya Sharma, assistant professor of linguistics, English and Foreign Languages University, Lucknow. The ubiquity of language makes linguistics an interesting, interdisciplinary yet analytically technical field, with several job avenues. Linguistics is not only the study of language and its basic aspects, namely, sounds (phonetics), words (morphology), grammar (syntax) and meaning (semantics), but it is also the interface between language and other disciplines such as literature, sociology, criminology , anthropology and psychology, commonly termed as applied linguistics. A...