Language, Literature and Linguistics

What is the difference between language, literature, and linguistics? When somebody shows this question, many of them sense that the answer to this question is so simple and familiar in fact. But someone wants the explanation for the same, then the question seems troubling.

Language as we all know is a medium used for communication. I.e., it is a conventional way to express emotions, feelings, and needs. The living bodies all over the universe have language. However, the language of humans is unique and it is considered as arbitrary. Language can be classified as verbal and non-verbal. The language in the form of written and spoken belongs to the verbal category and the signs, gestures; even silence comes under the non-verbal mode of communication. 

Literature is not so different from the function of what language does. It conveys the same emotions, feelings, and messages combined in a form of written works. The difference is the staging style. The aesthetic sense of the language has rhetoric rhythm and far from the usual language. It can carve up the nostalgia and intellectual freedom to feel the unreal world as real. The diachronic and synchronic pieces of works sometimes evoke the intellect or valuable insights and thoughts. 

Linguistics is a term generally familiar to language students defined as; the scientific study of language. Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics are the levels of Linguistics that delineate the formal structure of a language. When phonetics deals with production, transmission, and reception of human speech sounds, phonology pacts with the way those sounds are ordered in any language. Morphology is the level where we study the form and formation of words. Syntax referred to the study of sentence structure that includes the rules and principles that govern the well-formed sentences. The study of meanings involved with words and within the words in a language called Semantics. How the words and sentences are interpreted in a certain context is studied in Pragmatics. These levels of analysis make it possible to figure out the nature of any language. Moreover from these levels, areas like Historical Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Tribal Linguistics, Typology, etc. are subsisted. 

In brief; the language is meant for communication, the literature on the other hand extracts the aesthetic sense of that language and linguistics analyze both the language and literature. These are interconnected and language is the basement of literature and linguistics.