After reading How to Investigate Language Structure, I have noticed the different levels of language, including the physical forms and the abstract meaning forms. Under that, there are subcategories of language including phonetics, phonology, grammar, and semantics. I feel like whenever I learned a language, it always just focused on the grammar aspects when creating phrases and sentences. But the reading gives a good direction and order when learning a language. While studying the grammatical pattern, it is also important to highlight the semantic and phonological factors as they can change the meaning of the language.
While viewing the diagram from Aitchison’s Linguistics, I am interested to approach sociolinguistics and anthropological linguistics. Knowing the sociolinguistics of Korea will really shape and form the way they view certain social factors. Knowing the way they view society will affect the language and the way people interact. I would work on improving the semantics and phonology aspects of the language. Leaning toward anthropological linguistics will allow me to branch out into knowing the cultural practices and societal structures that affect language.
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