Each of us, from the school bench, chooses (often subconsciously) the main area of \u200b\u200bhis interests, which later often becomes a profession.
Someone is occupied with the surrounding world, someone - with technology and the laws of mechanics. One is fascinated by artistic images, the other by communication with people and helping them. Psychological diagnostics can help determine the inclinations. It indicates the area in which a person can be most successful. For example, if testing showed that you like the field of knowledge "human - sign system", then you have a direct road to linguists, mathematicians or programmers. Modern sciences studying language are constantly developing. Interaction between them is constantly strengthening, and in addition, they use the achievements of other spheres of human knowledge. How promising is this? Is not the role of the philologist reduced only to sitting inlibraries?
Classical philology or hermeneutics?
The sciences of language are getting more and more exciting these days. After all, speech is one of the most significant manifestations of human consciousness. All culture is somehow connected with it. But if earlier the sciences that study language focused mainly on classical philology (that is, ancient Greek, Latin and texts written in them), now the boundaries of even this discipline are expanding. Interpretation, people's understanding of each other, as well as written speech - this is what becomes the subject of hermeneutics. She studies not only the ancient texts, but the process of interpretation as a whole. Other disciplines that are related to various aspects of understanding speech include psychology, programming, logic, cultural studies…
Linguistics in the modern world
This field of knowledge combines almost all the sciences that study the language directly. She considers it both comprehensively and in various aspects, or "layers".
For example, such subsections as phonetics, orthoepy, stage speech, phonosemantics deal with the sound side. Psycholinguistics studies the relationship between human psychology and language. Textology - the functioning of integral written statements (texts). Poetics, which used to be part of classical philology, deals with the artistic word. The science that studies all the languages of the world in a complex way - linguistics - is constantly developing. New disciplines are emerging, such as communication theory. Applied aspects become promising. On the basis of what, by the way, are automatic translators created (take at least the same Google Translate)? Just to study the statistics of languages, morphology, semantics (science of meanings), stylistics, syntax.
Promising industries
It seems to many, "thanks" to the school curriculum, that there is nothing more boring than chiseling spelling rules ("well, who needs them?") Or memorizing paradigms of verb conjugation or declension of nouns. Literary criticism also seems to be an extremely tedious discipline due to the stamped approach. "What did the author want to say?", "Make an analysis of the poem" … As a result, many schoolchildren do not even know the name of the science that studies languages. And she, meanwhile, is engaged in more and more promising and exciting aspects.
Thanks to advances in computer technology, it becomes possible to recognize text from an image. Surely many of you have already encountered voice search. There are not only generators of names and titles, but also texts and even poems. And although computers do not yet perceive any shades of meaning or intonation, they are constantly learning and improving. Therefore, linguistics in the modern world is becoming more and more in demand and promising.
