TexasLangGenius
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Welcome from Flanders Fields, and what is (are) Applied linguistics, is this what we call over here 'Filiologie'?
Hi leicam5,
Applied Linguistics is a relatively new branch of linguistics that's interdisciplinary in nature, combining several fields like psychology, second language acquisition, pedagogy, etc. It's basically a study of how people acquire second languages and how to teach them.
Philology has more of a literary and historical background to it.