语言学实用教程

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

Chapter 6 How Are Words and Phrases Organized into Sentences? -- Syntax

Chapter 7 How Do Words and Sentences Convey Meaning?——Semantics

Chapter 8 What Is the Study of Meaning by Language?——Praclmatics

References

Workship Key

Glossary

Subject Index

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.