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Here, I have curated a collection of captivating content that not only revisits the concepts covered in various units but also reflects my personal taste and interests. Join me on this journey of exploration and revision, where learning meets entertainment in a seamless blend of knowledge and enjoyment. Let's embark on this exciting adventure together!

Please keep in mind that Unit 1 and its contents will be identified by the colour blue.
Unit 2 and its contents will be identified by the colour purple. Any other colour used might be to chosen randomly to make this Portfolio more fun :)

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1. Mode of communication: Humans predominantly use the vocal-auditory channel for communication, transmitting messages through speech and listening.

2. Semanticity: All signals in a communication system have a meaning or function. A linguistic message brings out a particular result (associations between words and actions/situations). In human language, signals have meaning or function, with linguistic messages conveying specific associations between words and actions/situations.

3. Pragmatic function: Language serves a useful purpose, enabling communication for various practical and social needs..

4. Interchangeability: Speakers of a language can both transmit and receive messages, allowing for fluid and dynamic conversations where participants can change subjects or messages.

5. Cultural transmission: While humans have an innate capacity for language acquisition, specific vocabulary and grammatical rules are learned and transmitted through cultural interaction rather than inherited genetically.

6. Arbitrariness: Human language exhibits arbitrariness, meaning there is no inherent or natural connection between linguistic forms (words, signs) and their meanings, except for onomatopoeic sounds.

7. Discreteness: Human languages utilize a limited set of distinctive sounds, with clear differences between them, despite the potential range of sounds produced by the vocal organs.

There is no natural or iconic connection between a linguistic form and its meaning → Lack of relationship between the signifier and signified.

8. Displacement: The ability to communicate about things, actions, ideas, etc. that are not present at the time or space where communication is taking place. It enables humans to recount events of the past, to talk about the future, to talk about things and places which existence we aren’t sure about and to create the imaginary events of myth and fiction.

9. Productivity: Humans possess the ability to create and understand an infinite number of novel expressions by manipulating linguistic resources, allowing for the generation of new utterances and the description of new objects and situations.

10. Duality of patterning: Human language operates on two simultaneous levels—distinct sounds (phonemes) and distinct meanings (morphemes)—allowing for efficient representation of a vast number of words and concepts with a relatively small set of phonemes.

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Pragmatics
The study of how context influences the interpretation of language and how language is used in social interactions.

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Semantics
The study of meaning in language, including how words, phrases, and sentences convey meaning.

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Phonetics and Phonology
The study of speech sounds and their production, categorization, and patterns within a language.

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Grammar
The study of the structure, rules, and patterns that govern the combination of words, phrases, and sentences in a language.

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Here is a more in depth glossary for the journey ahead!

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Is the scientific study of languages. It studies the languages of any or all human societies. It studies how language is constructed, structured, and used by its speakers and the relationships with other languages; also how it varies from dialect to dialect and the changes from one historical period to another. All types of linguistics are based on the assumption that language is structured and its components are related to each other, by a set of principles.

-Macrolinguistics: Broader aspect. Refers to the whole study of language, including psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, speech pathology, lexicography, computational linguistics and communication theory.

-Microlinguistics: Narrower aspect. Refers to the “central core” of language study, the areas of Grammar, Phonology, Semantics and Pragmatics.