Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics
1.1 Why Study Language?
1.2 What Is Language?
1.3 Design Features of Language
1.3.1 Arbitrariness
1.3.2 Duality
1.3.3 Creativity
1.3.4 Displacement
1.4 Origin of Language
1.5 Functions of Language
1.5.1 Informative
1.5.2 Interpersonal Function
1.5.3 Performative
1.5.4 Emotive Function
1.5.5 Phatic Communion
1.5.6 Recreational Function
1.5.7 Metalingual Function
1.6 What Is Linguistics?
1.7 Main Branches of Linguistics
1.7.1 Phonetics
1.7.2 Phonology
1.7.3 Morphology
1.7.4 Syntax
1.7.5 Semantics
1.7.6 Pragmatics
1.8 Macrolinguistics
1.8.1 Psycholinguistics
1.8.2 Soci01inguistics
1.8.3 Anthropological Linguistics
1.8.4 Computational Linguistics
1.9 Important Distinctions in Linguistics
1.9.1 Descriptive VS.Prescriptive
1.9.2 Synchronic VS.Diachronic
1.9.3 Langue&Parole
1.9.4 Competence and Performance
Chapter 2 Speech Sounds
2.1 How Speech Sounds Are Made?
2.1.1 Speech Organs
2.1.2 The IPA
2.2 Consonants and Vowels
2.2.1 Consonants
2.2.2 Vowels
2.2.3 The Sounds of English
2.3 From Phonetics to Phonology
2.3.1 Coarticulation and Phonetic Transcriptions
2.3.2 Phonemes
2.3.3 Allophones
2.4 Phonological Processes，Phonological Rules and Distinctive Features
2.4.1 Assimilation
2.4.2 Epenthesis，Rule Ordering and the Elsewhere Condition
2.4.3 Distinctive Features
2.5 Suprasegmentals
2.5.1 The Syllable Structure
2.5.2 Stress
2.5.3 Intonation
2.5.4 Tone
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Chapter 3 From Morpheme to Phrase
Chapter 4 From Word to Text
Chapter 5 Meaning
Chapter 6 Language and Cognition
Chapter 7 Language,Culture,and Society
Chapter 8 Language in Use
Chapter 9 Language and Literature
Chapter 10 Language and Computer
Chapter 11 Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching
Chapter 12 Theories and School of Modern Linguistics
Bibliography
Glossary and Index
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