Linguistics for Life

We plan to organise series of talks on various applications of linguistics.It will not only inform you about the different applications and the inter-disciplinary works but also will give you innovative ideas to explore.

Linguistics as a discipline is not very popular across the globe yet the linguists are serving different fields of life, all over the world. Some of the real life applications of linguistics are as follows.

• Computational linguistics / Natural Language Processing: automatic grammar and spell checking, machine translation, speech recognition and synthesis for interaction with computers and various other applications related to automatic processing of human language by machines.

• Second and Foreign language learning: helps in better understanding of language teaching and learning, influence of native language and errors occurring due to it

• Neurolinguistics/ Biolinguistics: how human brains comprehend and produce such a complex phenomena as language in such an effortless and automatic manner

• Clinical Linguistics: speech therapy as well as various developmental and language disorders like Dyslexia, Aphasia etc.

• Forensic linguistics: application of linguistic knowledge, methods and insights to the forensic context of law, language, crime investigation.

• Language Documentation and Revitalization: protection, preservation, promotion and use of all human languages, including the endangered languages.

• Lexicons, Dictionaries and Grammars: making monolingual and bilingual dictionaries, as well as producing grammars for different languages

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