Hi there, I am trying to make an Indonesian linguistic forum. I am confused in categorizing and making a sub category in Linguistics sub forum. Could you tell me is there any another theory of linguistic branch? Because when I try to see wikipiedia, the linguistic branch is different. I am just curios if there is a formal global acceptance in making a linguistics branch. Thank you.
I agree with Achilleas. You need to think about whether you are trying to cover all aspects of linguistics, or just elements of it. Forums often suffer because they make lots of sub-forums that no-one uses or too few sub-forums which makes it hard for people to find posts that are relevant to them. The solution tends to be see the response you get from the forum community and adjust your forum structure accordingly.
Or are you just making a forum to discuss Bahasa Indonesia, its dialects and other languages found and used in Indonesia? If so, then maybe they will be more suitable sub-forums.
There are several influences in linguistics theory besides de Saussure (who is actually less prominent today, his seminal role notwithstanding). In terms of sub-categorisation, there are people working in theoretical and applied linguistics, phonetics, morphology, semantics and pragmatics, psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics, and people working in distinct languages. Rather than try to accommodate for every possible specialisation in your forum, I would recommend that you let people come together, and if you see that there is a number of people who seem more interested in discussing a particular topic, create a sub-forum for them.
I agree with Achilleas. You need to think about whether you are trying to cover all aspects of linguistics, or just elements of it. Forums often suffer because they make lots of sub-forums that no-one uses or too few sub-forums which makes it hard for people to find posts that are relevant to them. The solution tends to be see the response you get from the forum community and adjust your forum structure accordingly.
Or are you just making a forum to discuss Bahasa Indonesia, its dialects and other languages found and used in Indonesia? If so, then maybe they will be more suitable sub-forums.
I would agree with Michael and Achilleas. In any case Linguistics is linguistics. What varies are the trends as they occur in certain moments in time and are usually associated to someone's theoretical proposal. You have de Saussure, but also the influence of Skinner, for example, and as a reaction Chomsky. Now Systemic Functional Grammar (Halliday) is more with the times. You should first find out a little more about the community's interest and work from there. Perhaps some specific topic of interest will come out if you met with members of the community.
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