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o called main branches of linguistics) is phoics, phonology, morphology, semantics, syntax, and pragmatics. ? 3. Macrolinguistics (also called interdisciplinary studies of language) refers to sociolinguistics, phycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, mathematical linguistics and putational linguistics. 幾個(gè)基本概念 ? 1. Important distinctions in linguistic: 1) Descriptive linguistics VS Prescriptive linguistics: ? Don’ t say X. ? People don’ t say X. ? The first is a prescriptive mand, while the second is a descriptive statement. The distinction lies in prescribing how things ought to be and describing how things are. 2) Synchronic linguistics VS Diachronic linguistics: ? Synchronic study description of a language at some point of time (modern linguistics) ? Diachronic study description of a language through time (historical development of language over a period of time) ? 3) Langue VS Parole ? Langue the abstract linguistic system shared by all members of the speech munity. ? Parole the realization of langue in actual use. ( Saussure takes a sociological view of language and his notion of langue is a matter of social conventions.) ? 2. The distinction between consonants and vowels is made in the following manner: ? if the air, once out of the glottis, is