本书是高等院校英语专业精品系列教材之一。
本书内容理论联系实际、重点突出。在介绍语言学的基本理论和概念的同时反映了语言学研究的新发展。全书共9章，包括语言与语言学、语音、词法、句法、语义、语用与语篇分析、语言与社会文化、语言习得与思维和语言教学等。本书体系完整、使用方便，每小节后配有练习题。书后提供了每小节的“参考书目”。另附术语表。
本书可供英语专业学生使用，也可供理工科和其他文科学生使用。
本书配有网络课程，网络课程中每小节后提供“相关链接”。
Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics
1.1 The Nature of Language
1.1.1 Language Is Systematic
1.1.2 Language Is Symbolic
1.1.3 Language Is Arbitrary
1.1.4 Language Is Primarily Vocal
1.1.5 Language Is Human Specific
1.1.6 Language Is Used for Communication
1.2 The Functions of Language
1.2.1 General Functions of Language
1.2.2 Metafunctions of Language
1.3 The Origin and Classification of Language
1.3.1 The Origin of Language
1.3.2 Language Families
1.4 What Is Linguistics?
1.4.1 Definition of Linguistics
1.4.2 Some Important Distinctions in Linguistics
1.5 The Scope of Linguistics
1.5.1 Use of Linguistics
1.5.2 Recent Developments
Chapter 2 Phonetics and Phonology
2.1 Production of Sounds
2.1.1 Scope of Phonetics
2.1.2 Articulation of Sounds
2.1.3 Characteristics of English Speech Sounds
2.1.4 The Transcription of Sounds
2.2 Phonemes
2.2.1 Definition of Phonemes
2.2.2 Minimal Pairs
2.2.3 Distinctive Features
2.3 Sound Patterns
2.3.1 Sequential Constraints
2.3.2 Complementary Distribution
2.4 Suprasegmental Features
2.4.1 Syllable
2.4.2 Stress
2.4.3 Pitch
2.4.4 Intonation and Tone
Chapter 3 Morphology and Lexicon
3.1 Word and Word Classes
3.1.1 Word
3.1.2 Word Classes
3.2 Morpheme
3.2.1 What Is a Morpheme?
3.2.2 Types of Morphemes
3.3 Inflection and Word-formation
3.3.1 Inflection
3.3.2 Word-formation
3.4 Lexicon
3.4.1 Lexeme
3.4.2 Features of Lexicon
Chapter 4 Syntax
4.1 Sentence Structure
4.1.1 Constituents
4.1.2 Sentence Types
4.2 Syntactic Function and Category
4.2.1 Syntactic Function
4.2.2 Category
4.3 Transformational kules
4.3.1 Deep Structure and Surface Structure
4.3.2 Sentence Transformations
Chapter 5 Semantics
Chapter 6 Pragmatics and Text Analysis
Chapter 7 Language and Sicial Culture
Chapter 8 Language Acquisition and Thought
Chapter 9 Linguistics and Language Teaching
Further Readings
References
Glossary
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