The following serves to delimit the object of the linguistic description of a language,
thus to exclude what it does not cover.
Language system and discourse
Comprehensive presentation includes:
- language system
- discourse
It excludes:
- world knowledge: encyclopedic knowledge + social conventions
- speech situation.
Structure of the language system
Description includes:
- language system
- standard phonetics.
It excludes:
- cognition and communication beyond the language system
- actual phonetics.