于学勇主编的《实用英语语言学》根据英语语言的层次性和逻辑性共分为九章。第一章引言，主要介绍语言学的范畴和基本概念，论述语言的本质、特征和功能。第二章语音，主要介绍语音学和音系学的区别和基本理论。第三章形态学，主要涉及语素、词的分类和构词法。第四章句法，从传统语法、结构主义语法、转换生成语法和系统功能语法分析句子的结构和特征。第五章意义，解析意义的基本形式、语义和语用的联系和区别及意义的层次性。第六章涉及语言学的主要流派，系统介绍现代语言学研究的发展和不同流派的思想和观点。第七章论述第一语言习得和第二外语习得的共性和差异性、语言习得的阶段性和方法。第八章语言和文化，系统分析了语言与文化的关系。第九章语言与文体，从前景化视角探析了文体学的分析模式和应用性。

于学勇主编的《实用英语语言学》根据英语语言的层次性和逻辑性，全书共分九个章节讲述英语语言学知识。《实用英语语言学》的编写充分体现了语言学的基础性、实用性、启发性、自足性和时代性，重视语言学知识传授与语言研究能力培养的结合，注重培养学生的创新思维能力，有利于学生语言学理论与语言实践应用相结合。

Chapter 1 Linguistics and Language

 1.1 What is Linguistics?

1.1.1 Definition of Linguistics

1.1.2 The Process of Linguistic Study

1.1.3 The Scope of Linguistics

1.1.4 Important Distinctions in Linguistics

 1.2 Language

1.2.1 Why Study Language?

1.2.2 What is Language?

1.2.3 Design Features of Language

1.2.4 Functions of Language

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 2 Speech Sounds

 2.1 Phonetics

2.1.1 What is Phonetics?

2.1.2 Speech Organs

2.1.3 Segments, Divergences, and Phonetic Transcription

2.1.4 Classification of English Speech Sounds

 2.2 Phonology

2.2.1 What is phonology?

2.2.2 Phone, Phoneme, and Allophone

 2.2.3 Phonemic Contrast, Complementary Distribution,and Minimal Pair

2.2.4 Some Rules in Phonology

2.2.5 Suprasegmental Features

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 3 Morphology

 3.1 What is Morphology?

3.1.1 Morpheme

3.1.2 Morphemes and Syllables

3.1.3 Types of Morphemes

 3.2 What is Word?

3.2.1 Word Class

3.2.2 Word Formation Process

3.2.3 Collocation

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 4 Syntax

 4.1 What is Syntax?

4.1.1 Word-level Categories

4.1.2 Phrase Categories

4.1.3 Phrase Structure Rule

4.1.4 Sentences (The S rule)

 4.2 The Process of Syntax

4.2.1 The Traditional Approach

4.2.2 The Structural Approach

4.2.3 The Generative Approach

4.2.4 The Functional Approach

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 5 Meaning

 5.1 Semantics

5.1.1 The Study of Meaning

5.1.2 Major Sense Relations between Words

5.1.3 Major Sense Relations between Sentences

5.1.4 Analysis of Meaning

 5.2 Pragmatics

5.2.1 What is Pragmatics?

5.2.2 Pragmatics vs.Semantics

5.2.3 Speech Act Theory

5.2.4 Principle of Conversation

5.2.5 Conversational Analysis

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 6 Schools of Modem Linguistics

 6.1 Ferdinand de Saussure

6.1.1 Saussure and His Book

6.1.2 Saussure's Linguistic Theories

 6.2 American Structuralism

6.2.1 Franz Boas

6.2.2 Edward Sapir

6.2.3 Leonard Bloomfield

 6.3 The Prague School

6.3.1 Phonological Oppositions

6.3.2 Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP)

 6.4 The London School

6.4.1 Malinowski's Theories

6.4.2 Firth's Theories

6.4.3 Halliday and Systemic-Functional Grammar

 6.5 Noam Chomsky and Transformational-Generative Grammar

6.5.1 Noam Chomsky

6.5.2 Chomsky's Innateness Hypothesis

6.5.3 Transformational-Generative Grammar

 6.6 Cognitive Linguistics

6.6.1 The Nature of Cognitive Linguistics

6.6.2 Cognitive Semantics and Cognitive Approaches to Grammar

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 7 Language Acquisition

 7.1 First Language Acquisition

7.1.1 A Behaviorist View of First Language Acquisition

7.1.2 A Nativist View of First Language Acquisition

7.1.3 An Interactionist View of First Language Acquisition

 7.2 Second Language Acquisition

7.2.1 Contrastive Analysis

7.2.2 Error Analysis

7.2.3 Interlanguage

7.2.4 Communicative Competence

7.2.5 Communication Strategies in L2 Use

7.2.6 Individual Learner Differences

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 8 Langnage and Culture

 8.1 What is Culture?

8.1.1 Definition

8.1.2 Cultural Images

8.1.3 Functions and Characteristics of Culture

 8.2 Language and Culture

8.2.1 The Relation between Language and Culture

8.2.2 Linguistic Evidence of Cultural Differences

8.2.3 Language-Cultural Teaching and Learning

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References

Chapter 9 Language and Style

 9.1 The Definition of Stylistics

 9.2 The Definition of Style

9.2.1 Style as the Man

9.2.2 Style as Choice

9.2.3 Style as Deviation

9.2.4 Style as Foregrounding

 9.3 Deviation

9.3.1 Phonological Deviation

9.3.2 Graphological Deviation

9.3.3 Lexical Deviation

9.3.4 Grammatical Deviation

9.3.5 Semantic Deviation

 9.4 Overregularity

9.4.1 Phonological Overregularity

9.4.2 Lexical and Grammatical Overregularity

 Exercises

 Further Reading

 References