Photo of the Week Asia Transpacific Journeys’ India Travel Contest from asiatranspacific.wordpress.com The science of language is known as linguistics. Linguistics studies the structure, sounds, and meaning of language, as well as how it is acquired and used by humans. Linguistics also examines the historical development and evolution of languages, as well as the social and cultural factors that influence language and communication. It is a broad field that encompasses many sub-disciplines, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and computational linguistics.