内容简介
Chapter 1 Language and linguistics
1 What is human language
2 What is linguistics
Chapter 2 Language universals
1 Semantic universals
2 Phonological universals
3 Syntactic universals
4 Absolute universals
Chapter 3 The history of English Ⅰ:Old English
1 Languages in Britain before English
2 Old English
Chapter 4 The history of English Ⅱ:Middle English
1 The change from Old English to Middle English
2 Modern English
Chapter 5 Language acquisition and disorders
1 Child language acquisition
2 Language development and maturation
3 Second language acquisition
4 Language disorders
5 Errors
Chapter 6 Communication
1 Saussure's model of the speech circuit
2 Shannon's and Moles'communication models
3 Bühler's organon model
4 Jakobson's model of communicative functions
Chapter 7 Phonetics
1 Articulatory phonetics
2 Articulatory phonetics—vowels
Chapter 8 Phonology
1 Phonemes and allophones
2 Distinctive features
3 Redundant features
4 Rules of phonology
Chapter 9 Morphology
1 Types of morphemes
2 Morphology and word-formation
3 Word classes and sentence functions
Chapter 10 Syntax
1 Introduction
2 Traditional grammar
3 Structuralist approaches
4 PS grammar(Phrase structure grammar)
5 Transformational-generative grammar
6 Systemic-functional grammar
Chapter 11 Semantics
1 Some fundamental concepts of semantics
2 Several theories of meaning
3 Sense relations
Chapter 12 Pragmatics
1 Context and meaning
2 Speech act theory
3 Conversational analysis
4 The theory of conversational implicature
Chapter 13 Sociolinguistics
1 Micro-analysis of language variation
2 Macro-analysis of language variation in multilingual communities
Chapter 14 Language,thought and culture
1 Understanding of culture
2 Language and thought
Chapter 15 Text linguistics
1 Cohesion
2 Cohesive devices
3 Coherence
Chapter 16 Computational linguistics
1 Computer-assisted language learning
2 Machine translation
3 Corpus linguistics
4 Information retrieval
5 Mail and news
Chapter 17 Semiotics:Study of signs
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