Part A Essentials of English Linguistics

A1 Language and linguistics

1.1 Language and its design features

1.2 Functions of language

1.3 Linguistic and important distinctions in it

A2 Phonetics and Phonology

2.1 Phonetics

2.2 The production of speech sounds

2.3 Transcription of sounds

2.4 Phonology

2.5 Suprasegmentals

2.6 Coariticulation

A3 Morphology

3.1 Word

3.2 Classification of words

3.3 Morpheme

3.4 Types of morphemes

3.5 Word-formation

3.6 Morpho-syntactical change

A4 Syntax

4.1 The Subject Matter of Syntax：Sentence

4.2 The Traditional Approach

4.3 The Structural Approach

4.4 The Generative Approach

A5 Semantics

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The Meaning of“Meaning”

5.3 Word meaning

5.4 Sentence meaning

A6 Pragmatics

6.1 What is pragmatics?

6.2 Speech Act Theory

6.3 Conversational Principle and Implicature

A7 Cognitive Linguistics

7.1 Language and Cognition

7.2 Cognitive linguistics

7.3 Approaches in Cognitive Linguistics

7.4 The Basic Concept：Categorization

7.5 Other Theories in Cognitive Linguistics

7.6 Other Issues in Cognitive Linguistcs

A8 Sociolinguistics

8.1 Sociolinguistics

8.2 Language variation

8.3 Language contact

8.4 Language plan and policy

A9 Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics

9.1 Introduction

9.2 The Prague School

9.3 The London School

9.4 The American Structuralist School

9.5 The Transformational-Generative（TG）school

9.6 Later Theories

Part B Readers of English Linguistics

B1 Introduction

B1.1 Why Major in Linguistics?

B2 Phonetics and Phonology

B2.1 Phonetics

B2.2 Phonology

B2.3 Stess

B2.4 Intonation

B3 Morphology

B3.1 Why do languages have Morphology?

B3.2 Affixation

B3.3 Infixes

B3.4 Inflection vs.derivation revisited

B3.5 Lexical semantics

B3.6 Types of compounds

B3.7 Adopting and adapting words

B3.8 Lexical change

B4 Syntax

B4.1 Syntax

B4.2 Systemic-functional grammar

B5 Semantics

B5.1 Sense/reference/denotation/connotation

B5.2 Major sense relations

B5.3 Componential Analysis

B5.4 Sentence and proposition

B5.5 Process,participant and circumstance

B6 Pragmatics

B6.1 Speech acts

B6.2 The Cooperative Principle

B6.3 Relevance theory

B6.4 Politeness

B7 Cognitive Linguistics

B7.1 About cognitive linguistics：historical backgound

B7.2 The structure of cognitive categories

B7.3 From Wittgenstein to Rosch

B7.4 Metaphor and cognitive linguistics

B7.5 Conceptual metonymy

B7.6 Towards a theory of metonymy

B8 Sociolinguistics

B8.1 What is sociolinguistics?

B8.2 Class as a factor in linguistic variation

B8.3 Preferential gender differences

B8.4 Language and age

B8.5 Chinese Pidgin English

B9 Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics

B9.1 Historicism

B9.2 Structuralism

B9.3 Functionalism

B9.4 Generativism

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