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| 1. | stylistics | How language varies in specific speech situations. | |
| 2. | Theoretical Linguistics | Broad; how language is structured. | |
| 3. | computational linguistics | Use of computers to assist languages; teaching computers to understand speech. | |
| 4. | historical linguistics | Traces history or evolution of something in a language, such as sound change, word order. | |
| 5. | descriptive linguistics | Documents structure of particular language (phonology, morphology or syntax). | |
| 6. | Applied Linguistics | Using linguistics: second language teaching, learning. | |
| 7. | forensic linguistics | Language and the law (courtroom, arrest). | |
| 8. | sociolinguistics | Relationship between society and language: groups (class, gender, age) of people who share similar trait in language use. | |
| 9. | biology of language | Human versus animal communications; genes of language. | |
| 10. | neurolinguistics | What specific parts of the brain do in interpreting language. | |
| 11. | anthropological linguistics | Study of interaction between language and culture. (Broad) | |
| 12. | linguistic typology | Classifying languages based on similar structural characters. Also seeing what occurs in all or most languages. | |
| 13. | psycholinguistics | How the brain processes language, meaning. Comprehension. |