u/Language_Mosquito

A bit meta question. I’ve recently been thinking about how multidimensional language is as a object and so many different methodologies have been used to study it. And linguists themselves seem to disagree about what language actually is. For example, syntacticians, field linguists,sociolinguists, phonetician, psycholinguists are all linguists, but their work look extremely different from each other.

I dont know if this is the case of other disciplines, but how do linguists think about the internal diversity of the field? What makes linguistics one discipline, rather than a loose collection of related fields?