macrolinguistics
/ˌmakrəʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/noun
The branch of linguistics that deals with language and related extra-lingual phenomena as a whole; (sometimes) specifically the statistical analysis of large-scale linguistic phenomena.
Origin
1940s. From macro- + linguistic: see quot. 1949. Compare microlinguistics, metalinguistics, prelinguistics.