Applied linguistics

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thumb|upright=1.35|Adult literacy rates, 2023 Literacy is the ability to read and write, and illiteracy is the inability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of literacy as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (understanding the meanings of words without necessarily being able to use words); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural aspects of reading, writing, and functional literacy.

Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of symbols, often specifically those of a written language, by means of sight or touch.

An orthography is a set of conventions for writing a language, including norms of spelling, punctuation, word boundaries, capitalization, hyphenation, and emphasis.

thumb|right|upright=1.25|Painting depicting a lecture in a knight academy, painted by [[Pieter Isaacsz or Reinhold Timm for Rosenborg Castle as part of a series of seven paintings depicting the seven independent arts. This painting illustrates rhetoric.]] thumb|upright|Jesus was a preacher in 1st-century Judea.

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Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter meaning is also known as terminology science. A term is a word, compound word, or expression that in specific contexts is given specific meanings—these may deviate from the meanings the same words have in other contexts and in everyday language. Terminology is a discipline that studies, among other things, the development of such terms and their interrelationships within a specialized domain. Terminology differs from lexicography, as it involves

Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and spoken language with regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals in different situations and settings. For example, the vernacular, or everyday language, may be used among casual friends, whereas more formal language, with respect to grammar, pronunciation or accent, and lexicon or choice of words, is often used in a cover letter and résumé and while speaking during a job intervie

the study and treatment of speech and language problems

study of language-related real-life problems

deliberate effort to influence the function, structure, or acquisition of languages or language variety within a speech community

generic term for the analysis of social, language policy or historiographical discourse phenomena

branch of linguistics that studies language through examples contained in real texts

application of linguistics to forensics

process and practice of teaching a second or foreign language

human communication that occurs through the use of two or more electronic devices; communicative transaction that occurs through the use of two or more networked computers

process in which a second or additional language is acquired after the first language has been learned

area of graphic design related to displaying information effectively, rather than just attractively or for artistic expression

subdiscipline of mathematical linguistics that investigates languages using statistical methods to formulate language laws

branch of linguistics

practice-oriented linguistic approach

study of social interaction, embracing both verbal and non-verbal conduct, in situations of everyday life

collective term for words and expressions for culture-specific material elements

usage of linguistic units established in a particular community, accorded widespread or significant acceptance by speakers

In terminology management, a termbase, or term base (a contraction of terminology and database), is a database consisting of concept-oriented terminological entries (or ‘concepts’) and related information, usually in multilingual format. Entries may include any of the following additional information: a definition; source or context of the term; subject area, domain, or industry; grammatical information (verb, noun, etc.); notes; usage label (figurative, American English, formal, etc.); author (‘created by’), creation/modification date (‘created/modified at’); verification stat

domain of linguistics

unintended deviation from the rules of a language variety

language disorder in which a child fails to develop language normally

branch of linguistics

100-million-word text corpus of samples of written and spoken English from a wide range of sources

data set of American English in 1961

assessment of language ability

Lexicometry is the quantitative study of the lexicon, using statistical methods, studying a corpus of texts, based mainly on the frequency of use of the words that are part of it.

estimated measure of content per functional and lexical units in total; a descriptive parameter which varies with register and genre

COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 and funded by Collins publishers.

practice of rhetoric

Mother tongue language diversity

a more than 560-million-word corpus of American English

French association for applied linguistics

approach in linguistics

area within applied linguistics

annotated linguistic resource