This book on linguistics is designed, m general, for college students in China,and in particular, for Chinese college students who are educated at normal universities as would-be teachers and who are expected to teach English to students at secondary schools. We,therefore, have some features in this book.
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Foreword
Acknowledgements
Guide to Use
Chapter 1 Human Language
1.1 Languages in the world
1.2 The birth of language--from Babel to babble
1.3 Definitions of language
1.4 Design features of human language
1.5 Animal commtmication and human language
1.6 Language as endowment and/or accomplishment
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
Chapter 2 Linguistics as a Science
2.1 A brief history of linguistics
2.2 Focus of linguistic study
2.3 Branches of theoretical linguistics
2.4 Interdisciplinary studies
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
Chapter 3 What Are the Sounds of Language? Phonetics
3.1 The relationship between sounds and spellings
3.2 The definition of phonetics
3.3 The IPA system
3.4 The production of speech sounds
3.5 Classifications of speech sounds
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
Chapter 4 What Are the Sound Systems of Language?-- Phonology
4.1 Phone, phoneme and allophone
4.2 Minimal pairs
4.3 Phonological rules
4.4 Suprasegmental features
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
Chapter 5 How Do Sounds Make up Words?——Morphology
5.1 The definition of "word"
5.2 The definition of morphology
5.3 Classification of morphemes
5.4 Derivational morphology
5.5 Inflectional morphology
5.6 The interaction between morphology and phonology"
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
Chapter 6 How Are Words and Phrases Organized into Sentences? -- Syntax
6.1 Sentence, syntactic category and constituent
6.2 Tree diagrams
6.3 Heads and complements
6.4 Phrase structure rules
6.5 Surface structures and deep structures
6.6 Universal Grammar
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
Chapter 7 How Do Words and Sentences Convey Meaning? -- Semantics
7.1 The classification of meaning
7.2 Componential analysis
7.3 Sense relation
7.4 Collocations
7.5 Metaphors
7.6 Metonymy
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
Chapter 8 What Is the Study of Meaning by Language? --Pragmatics
8.1 Distinction of pmgmatics
8.2 Pragmatic meaning
8.3 Speech act
8.4 Conversation and interaction
Summary
Workshop
Appreciation of linguistic research
References
Workshop Key
Glossary
Subject Index