戴炜栋、何兆熊主编的《新编简明英语语言学教程（第2版修订版）》主要注重语言学基础理论知识的更新和充实，不求大而全。第二版的《新编简明英语语言学教程》在第一章、第三章、第六章、第七章、第十章和第十二章都增加了新的内容，作了一些比较大的改动，个别章节如第三章的框架结构有较大调整，其他章节作了个别文字勘误和改进。对练习作了一些更新和增补，其目的是希望学生能够尝试应用所学的理论知识对一些语言素材进行分析，在使学生对语言和语言学有更多感性认识的同时，培养他们独立分析问题和解决问题的能力。此外，第二版教程增加了一个新的部分，即在每个章节的后面，有选择地附上三、四个阅读书目，有的是专著中的章节，有的是学术论文，希望在培养学生语言学学习兴趣的同时，既为广大的教师提供一些课外补充材料，也为一些爱钻研的同学深入学习提供一定的方便。

Chapter 1 Introduction

 1.1 What is linguistics?

1.1.1 Definition

1.1.2 The scope of linguistics

1.1.3 Some important distinctions in linguistics

 1.2 What is language?

1.2.1 Definitions of language

1.2.2 Design features of language

1.2.3 Functions of language

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Chapter 2 Phonology

 2.1 The phonic medium of language

 2.2 Phonetics

2.2.1 What is phonetics?

2.2.2 Organs of speech

2.2.3 Orthographic representation of speech sounds broad and narrow transcriptions

2.2.4 Classification of English speech sounds

 2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 Phonology and phonetics

2.3.2 Phone, phoneme, and allophone

2.3.3 Phonemic contrast, complementary distribution,and minimal pair

2.3.4 Some rules in phonology

2.3.5 Suprasegmental features -- stress, tone, intonation

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Chapter 3 Morphology

 3.1 Introduction

 3.2 Open class and closed class

 3.3 Morphemes -- the minimal units of meaning

 3.4 Analyzing word structures

 3.5 Derivationa! andinflectional morphemes

 3.6 Morphological rules of word formation

 3.7 Derivation

 3.8 CompoUnds

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Chapter 4 Syntax

 4.1 What is syfitax?

 4.2 Categories

4.2.1 Word-level categories

4.2.2 Phrase categories and their structures

 4.3 Phrase structure rule

4.3.1 XPrule

4.3.2 Coordination rule

 4.4 Phrase elements

4.4.1 Specifiers

4.4.2 Complements

4.4.3 Modifiers

 4.5 Sentences (The S rule)

 4.6 Transformations

4.6.1 Auxiliary movement

4.6.2 Do insertion

4.6.3 Deep structure and surface structure

4.6.4 Wh movement

4.6.5 Move a and constraints on transformations

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Chapter 5 Semantics

 5.1 What is semantics?

 5.2 Some views concerning the study of meaning

5.2.1 The naming theory

5.2.2 The conceptualist view

5.2.3 Contextualism

5.2.4 Behaviorism

 5.3 Lexical meaning

5.3.1 Senseand reference

5.3.2 Major sense relations

 5.4 Sense relations between sentences

 5.5 Analysis of meaning

5.5.1 Componential analysis -- a way to analyze lexical meaning

5.5.2 Predication analysis -- a way to analyze sentence meaning

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Chapter 6 Pragmatics

 6.1 Som'e basic notions

6.1.1 Definition

6.1.2 Pragmatics vs.semantics

6.1.3 Context

6.1.4 Sentence meaning vs.utterance meaning

 6.2 Speech act theory

6.2.1 Austin's model of speech acts

6.2.2 Searle's classification of speech acts

6.2.3 Indirect speech acts

 6.3 Principle of conversation

 6.4 Cross-cultural pragmatic failure

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Chapter 7 Language Change

 7.1 Introduction

 7.2 Phonological changes

 7.3 Morphological and syntactic change

7.3.1 Adclition Of affixes

7.3.2 Loss of affixes

7.3.3 Change of word order

7.3.4 Change in negation rule

 7.4 Lexical'and semantic change

7.4.1 Addition of new words

7.4.2 Loss of words

7.4.3 Semantic changes

 7.5 Some recent trends

7.5.1 Moving towards greater informality

7.5.2 The influence of American English

7.5.3 The influence of sci.ence and technology

 7.6 The causes of language change

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Chapter 8 Language and Society

 8.1 The scope of sociolinguistics

8.1.1 The relatedness between language and society

8.1.2 Speech community and speech variety

8.1.3 Two approaches to sociolinguistic studies

 8.2 Varieties of language

8.2.1 Dialectal varieties

8.2.2 Register

8.2.3 Degree of formality

 8.3 Standard dialect

 8.4 Pidgin and Creole

 8.5 Bilingualism and diglosia

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Chapter 9 Language and Culture

 9.1 Introduction

 9.2 What is culture?

 9.3 The relationship between language and culture

 9.4 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis

 9.5 Linguistic evidence of cultural differences

9.5, 1 Greetings and terms of address

9.5.2 Gratitude and compliments

9.5.3 Colour words

9.5.4 Privacy and taboos

9.5.5 Rounding off numbers

9.5.6 Words and cultural-specific connotations

9.5.7 Cultural-related idioms, proverbs and metaphors

 9.6 Culture contact, cultural overlap and diffusion

 9.7 The significance of cultural teaching and learning

 9.8 Intercultural communication

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Chapter 10 Language Acquisition

 10.1 Introduction

 10.2 Theories of child language acquisition

10.2.1 A behaviourist view of language acquisition

10.2.2 An innatist view of language acquisition

10.2.3 An iriteractionist view of language acquisition

 10.3 Cognitive development in child language development

 10.4 Language environment and the Critical Period Hypo-thesis

 10.5 Stages in child language development

10.5.1 Phonological development

10.5.2 Vocabulary development

10.5.3 Grammatical development

10.5.4 Pragmatic development

 10.6 Atypical development

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Chapter 11 Second Language Acquisition

 11.1 Introduction

 11.2 Connections between first language acquisition and second language acquisition

 11.3 Contrastive analysis

 11.4 Error analysis

 11.5 Interlanguage

 11.6 The role of the native language in second language learning

 11.7 Second language learning models and input hypothesis

 11.8 Individual differences

 11.9 Second language acquisition and its pedagogical implications

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Chapter 12 Language and the Brain

 12.1 Introduction

 12.2 Neurolinguistics

12.2.1 What is neurolinguistics?

12.2.2 The structure and function of the human brain

12.2.3 Methods for the study of the brain and evidences for lateralization

12.2.4 Aphasia

 12.3 Psycholinguistics

12.3.1 What is psycholinguistics?

12.3.2 Psycholinguistic research methods

12.3.3 Linguistics and language processing

12.3.4 Psycholinguistic modeling

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A Glossary in English and Chinese

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