Linguistics is the scientific study of languages and includes many theories to include other branches and disciplines of study such as psychology, sociology, anthropology,history,cognitive science...
The concept is very simple really. Linguistic competence is what you actually know about a language, and linguistic performance is how you actually use it. So if you make grammatical mistakes, but...
Comparative linguistics is part of historical linguistics and refers to the process of establishing family relationships and reconstructing proto-languages (= ancestral languages). For example, if we...
Linguistics is the study of language itself--like parts of speech, the sounds a language is made of, etc. Stylistics is the study of how language is used in writing--like changing how you write for...