语言学是语言的系统，科学的研究。语言学具有许多子领域，包括语言的历史和关系，意义，语法和上下文的研究，语言的声音模式，语言与社会之间的相互作用，语言和认知在人类进化中的作用，语言在语言中的重要性。人际和群体间的交流，以及法律分析的意义。这种语言最清楚地将人类与地球上所有其他物种区分开。人事围绕语言。语言学使学生能够理解这种最特殊的人类工具的内部运作方式：交流发生或失败的方式和原因，语言如何用于支持群体中的人们，语言的结构是人类智能的结构。
Linguistics is the systematic, scientific study of language. Linguistics has many subfields, including the history and relationship among languages, the study of meaning, grammar and context, the sound patterns of language, the interplay between language and society, the role of language and cognition in human evolution, the importance of language in interpersonal and intergroup communication, and the significance of linguistic analysis in law. It is language that most clearly separates humans from all other species on the planet. Human affairs revolve around language. Linguistics enables students to understand the inner workings of this most special human tool: how and why communication happens or fails to happen, how language is used to support people in groups, how the structure of language is the structure of human intelligence.<br><br>Linguistics prepares a student for many possible occupations. Linguistics gives language students a deeper understanding of how their language works. Linguists often go into language and computer-related fields. TESOL students teach English at all levels, and all over the globe. Anthropologists consider linguistics to be one of the core fields of anthropology. Linguistics helps those in legal professions to use language more precisely, and to better understand manipulation and deception in legal applications.