Each of us from the school's bench chooses (often subconsciously) the main sphere of his interests, which subsequently often becomes a profession. Someone occupies the surrounding world, someone - the technique and laws of mechanics. One captures artistic images, the other - communication with people and helping them. Help to determine the inclinations can psychological diagnosis. It indicates the sphere in which a person can be most successful. For example, if testing has shown that you like the field of knowledge "a person is a sign system", then you have a direct road to linguists, mathematicians or programmers. Modern science, learning the language, is constantly evolving. Interaction between them is continuously strengthened, and in addition, they use the achievements of other spheres of human knowledge. Is it perspective? Is it the role of a philologist only to sit in libraries?
Classical philology or hermeneutics?
Nowadays, the sciences that study the language are becoming more and more fascinating. After all, speech is one of the most significant manifestations of human consciousness. The whole culture is somehow connected with it. But if earlier the sciences studying the language centered mainly on classical philology (that is, Greek, Latin and texts written on them), now the boundaries of even this discipline are expanding. Interpretation, understanding of each other's people, and also of written speech - that's what becomes hermeneutics. She studies not only the ancient texts, but the process of interpretation as a whole. To other disciplines that are associated with various aspects of understanding speech, you can include psychology, programming, logic, cultural studies ...
Linguistics in the modern world
This area of knowledge unites in itself practically all sciences that study the language directly. She considers it in a complex way, and in various aspects, or "layers." For example, the sound side deals with such subsections as phonetics, orthoepia, stage speech, phonosemantics. Psycholinguistics studies the relationship between human psychology and language. Textology is the functioning of integral written utterances (texts). The poetics, which used to be a part of classical philology, is engaged in an artistic word. Science, which studies all languages of the world in a complex way, linguistics, is constantly evolving. There are new disciplines, for example, the theory of communication. Applied aspects become promising. Based on which, by the way, automatic translators are created (take at least the same Google Translate)? Just on the study of statistics of languages, morphology, semantics (the science of meanings), stylistics, syntax.
Prospective branches
Many people think, thanks to the school curriculum, that there is nothing more boring than spitting on the rules of spelling ("to whom are they needed?") Or memorizing the paradigms of verbal conjugation or declension of nouns. Literary studies also seem extremely tedious discipline because of the stamped approach. "What did the author want to say?", "Do an analysis of the poem" ... Many schoolchildren as a result do not even know the name of science, which studies languages. And she, meanwhile, is engaged in ever more promising and fascinating aspects. Thanks to the achievements of computer technology, it becomes possible to recognize text from an image. Surely many 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 intonations, they constantly learn and improve. Therefore, linguistics in the modern world is becoming more and more popular and promising.