Linguistics
Is the scientific study of language. There are broadly three aspects to the study, which include language form, language meaning, and language in context.
Others uses
The part of a linguistics
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Phonetics - the study of speech sounds in their physical aspects
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Phonology - the study of speech sounds in their cognitive aspects
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Morphology - the study of the formation of words
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Syntax - the study of the formation of sentences
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Semantics - the study of meaning
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Pragmatics - the study of language use.
Another part of linguistics is involved in understanding how languages are used in society or in the world. Sociolinguistics studies how language is used in society, and historical linguistics studies how languages change over time and how languages were in the past. One part of historical linguistics is known as etymology, where people study the history of words.
"Selection, not invention, is the supreme linguistic norm"
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
"Linguistics is largely a science. It is a human science, one of the human sciences. And one of the most important human sciences"
Samuel R. Delany