语言的结构与应用

PrefaceChapter 1 Languages and Linguistics What Do You Think? How the United States Have an Official Language? English-Only,English Plus,Multilingualism What Is Human Language? Theree Faces of a Languatge System Laguage:Mental and Social Signs:Arbitrary and Nonarbitrary Arbitrary Signs epresentational Signs Language-A System of Arbitrary Signs Languages as Patterned Structures Discreteness Duality

PrefaceChapter 1 Languages and Linguistics What Do You Think? How the United States Have an Official Language? English-Only,English Plus,Multilingualism What Is Human Language? Theree Faces of a Languatge System Laguage:Mental and Social Signs:Arbitrary and Nonarbitrary Arbitrary Signs epresentational Signs Language-A System of Arbitrary Signs Languages as Patterned Structures Discreteness Duality Speech as Patterned Language Use The Origin of Languages:Babel to Babble Languages and Diaiects What Are Social Dialects? Different Dialects or Different Languages? What Is a Standard Variety? Is There a Right and a Wrong in English Usage? Modes of Linguistic Communication Speaking Writing Signing Do Animals Have Language? How Animals Communicate in Their Natural Environment Can Chimpanzees Learn a Human Language? Did Project Nim Fail? What Is Linguistics? What are the Branches of Linguistics? Computers and Linguistics Summary What Do You Think?Revisited Exercises Especially for Educators and Future Teachers Othes Resources Internet Videos Suggestions for Further Reading Advanced Reading ReferencesChapter 2 Words and Their Parts:Lexicon and MorphologyChapter 3 The Sounds of Languages:PhoneticsChapter 4 Sound Systems of Language:PhonologyChapter 5 The Structure and Function of Phrases and Sentences:SyntaxChapter 6 The Study of Meaning:SemanticsChapter 7 Language Universals and Language TypologyChapter 8 Information Structure and PragmaticsChapter 9 Speech Acts and ConversationChapter 10 Registers and Styles:Language Variation across Situations of UseChapter 11 Language Variation Among Social Groups:DialectsChapter 12 WritingChapter 13 Language Change over Time:Historical LinguisticsChapter 14 Historical Development in EnglishChapter 15 Acquiring First and Second Languages

《语言的结构与运用》是一本普遍语言学入门教程，适合我国语言学、应用语言学方向的大学生、研究生及语言学研究研读。本书的主要目标定位于帮助读者认识语言结构和语言在社会交往中的功能。 本书内容包括三部分：一、语言结构；二、语言使用；三、语言变化、语言发展和语言习得。本书虽然是语言学入门的教程，但是，它所提供的信息量非常大，丰富的内容为学生和教师提供了广阔的选择空间。本书的另一特点是语言研究与信息技术结合。本书每章末尾都专门讨论计算机与该章内容相关的内容，除了提供常规的参考书目，还提供了丰富的、带注释的网络资源。本书深入浅出，例证丰富，脉络清晰，覆盖面广。作为语言学入门的书，作者并不只对语言学做具体的介绍，还注重语言学方法的介绍、前沿问题和研究成果的介绍，使学生和读者从系统地接触语言学的时刻起，就能够跟上语言学的最新发展。纵览全书，可以看出这是一本全面系统、信息量大、通俗易懂、注重基础概念、紧跟学科发展前沿的语言学入门教程。想要进入语言学殿堂的读者，一定不会失望。

《语言的结构与运用》是一本普遍语言学入门教程，适合我国语言学、应用语言学方向的大学生、研究生及语言学研究研读。本书的主要目标定位于帮助读者认识语言结构和语言在社会交往中的功能。 本书内容包括三部分：一、语言结构；二、语言使用；三、语言变化、语言发展和语言习得。本书虽然是语言学入门的教程，但是，它所提供的信息量非常大，丰富的内容为学生和教师提供了广阔的选择空间。本书的另一特点是语言研究与信息技术结合。本书每章末尾都专门讨论计算机与该章内容相关的内容，除了提供常规的参考书目，还提供了丰富的、带注释的网络资源。本书深入浅出，例证丰富，脉络清晰，覆盖面广。作为语言学入门的书，作者并不只对语言学做具体的介绍，还注重语言学方法的介绍、前沿问题和研究成果的介绍，使学生和读者从系统地接触语言学的时刻起，就能够跟上语言学的最新发展。纵览全书，可以看出这是一本全面系统、信息量大、通俗易懂、注重基础概念、紧跟学科发展前沿的语言学入门教程。想要进入语言学殿堂的读者，一定不会失望。