★Haliday—childlanguage
Macrofunctions:ideational,interpersonal,textual
★whataremajorbranchesoflinguistics
whatdoeseachstudy
Phoneticsthestudyofthephonicmediumoflanguage,it'sconcernedwithallthesoundsthatoccurintheworld'slanguages
Phonology---thestudyofsoundssystems—theinventoryofdistinctivesoundsthatoccurinalanguageandthepatternsintowhichtheyfall
Morphology---It'sabranchofagrammarwhichstudiestheinternalstructureofwordsandtherulesbywhichwordsareformed
Syntaxit'sasubfieldoflinguisticsthatstudiesthesentencestructureofalanguage
Semantics---It'ssimplydefinedasthestudyofmeaninginabstraction
Pragmatics---thestudyofmeaningincontextofwords
Thestudyofhowspeakersofalanguageusesentencestoeffectsuccessfulcommunication
Sociolinguistics—thestudyoflanguagewithreferencetosociety