Methods of communicative linguistics

Сommunicative linguistics is the youngest branch in the prosody science about language. It was born because of the anthropological revolution. It means that the scholars study not how the language is organized, but how it acts according to its main function, that is the mean of communication.
It started to develop in the second half of the 20th century. Being a scientific discipline, it is closely linked to other branches of science, such as psychology, pragmatics, semiotics, rhetoric, ethnography, sociology, and politics. The methods used by these sciences are deeply involved in the study of the communicative processes.