Language Fields

Question 1

The study of all the “variations linked to the social and geographical roots” of language users.

i.e. dialect, national language, jargon, language blends.

Answer 1

Geolinguistics

Question 2

Focuses on the study of the “relationship between language and society or culture or behaviour.”

Not a single discipline but a set of propositions and studies.

i.e. sociology of language, ethnolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, etc.

Answer 2

Sociolinguistics

Question 3

Focuses on the “psychological processes of language production and language comprehension.”

e.g. language and behaviourism, stimulus-response schema etc.

Answer 3

Psycholinguistics

Question 4

Technique intended to allow its possessor to achieve, within a discursive situation, the desired goal.

It has a pragmatic character; to convince the interlocutor to the rightness of a cause.

Answer 4

Rhetoric and Stylistics

Question 5

Art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques

Answer 5

Rhetoric

Question 6

Study of distinctive styles found in particular literary genres and in the works of individual writers.

Answer 6

Stylistics

Question 7

Designates any internal theory of literature.

Proposes to elaborate categories that allow us to grasp simultaneously the unity and the variety of literary works.

Answer 7

Poetics

Question 8

A study that considers language as an already known object and seeks out its relationships with other objects that are supposed, to be distinct from language.

Answer 8

Philosophy of Language