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What is linguistics? Linguistics is the science of language, alternatively, the scientific study of language. Why is it scientific? A branch of humanities and social science. It has a set of established theories, methods and branches. It does not study a specific language but language in general. It is based on the systematic investigation of linguistics data（written and spoken） Main/Core Branches (Micro-linguistics) Phonetics (语音学) Production, transmission, and perception of speech sounds Phonology （音系学）Rules of sound patterning; phoneme Morphology（形态学）Rules of word formation; morpheme Sy