Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic uzbekistan state world languages university

Sociolinguistics
is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects 
of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way 
language is used, and the effects of language use on society. 
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Ethnolinguistics
(sometimes called 
cultural linguistics
) is a field of 
linguistics, which studies the relationship between language and culture, and the 
way different ethnic groups perceive the world. It is the combination between 
ethnology and linguistics. 
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Psycholinguistics
or 
psychology of language
is the study of the 
psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, 
comprehend and produce language. 
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Cognitive linguistics
refers to the branch of linguistics that interprets 
language in terms of the concepts, sometimes universal, sometimes specific to a 

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particular tongue, which underlies its forms. It is thus closely associated with 
semantics but is distinct from psycholinguistics, which draws upon empirical 
findings from cognitive psychology in order to explain the mental processes that 
underlie the acquisition, storage, production and understanding of speech and 
writing. 
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Habitus
is a system of embodied dispositions, tendencies that organize the 
ways in which individuals perceive the social world around them and react to it. 
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Cybernetics
is a transdisciplinary approach for exploring regulatory 
systems, their structures, constraints, and possibilities. In the 21st century, the term 
is often used in a rather loose way to imply "control of any system using 
technology." 
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Communicative competence
is a term in linguistics which refers to a 
language user's grammatical knowledge of syntax, morphology, phonology and the 
like, as well as social knowledge about how and when to use utterances 
appropriately. 
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