“英语语言学”是高校英语专业学生的必修课,是为英语专业学生提供关于英语语言运用和语言发展内在规律的一门重要课程。英语语言学教材的开发对发展和繁荣我国的语言学研究有积极的推动作用。《英语语言学实践教程》涵盖了英语语言学的主要分支,课后练习题精选了各高校英语专业硕士研究生入学考试的试题,在帮助学生学习英语语言学知识的同时,对他们准备硕士研究生入学考试也有很大的帮助。《英语语言学实践教程》由十章组成,内容涵盖语言学导论、当代语言学流派介绍、语音学、音系学、形态学、句法学、语义学、语用学、心理语言学、语言文化和社会以及应用语言学。
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Language
1.1.1 What is language?
1.1.2 Design features of language
1.1.3 The functions of language
1.2 Linguistics
1.2.1 Definition of linguistics
1.2.2 Short history of modem linguistics
1.2.3 Main branches of linguistics
1.2.4 Why should we study linguistics?
1.3 Some important distinctions in linguistics
1.3.1 Descriptive approach vs. prescriptive approach
1.3.2 Synchronic vs. diachronic
1.3.3 Langue vs. parole
1.3.4 Competence vs. performance
1.3.5 Linguistic potential vs. linguistic behavior
Exercises
References
Chapter 2 Schools of Modern Linguistics and Modern Linguists
2.1 Historical linguistics
2.2 Structuralism
2.2.1 F. de Saussure's Theories
2.2.2 Halliday and Systemic Functional Grammar
2.3 Generativism
2.3.1 Generative linguistics
2.3.2 Chomsky's theory
2.4 Other linguistic theories in late half of the 20th century
Exercises
References
Chapter 3 Speech Sounds
3.1 Basic concepts and definitions
3.1.1 Speech organs
3.1.2 Phonetics vs. phonology
3.2 IPA
3.3 Segment
3.3.1 Phone, phoneme and allophone
3.3.2 Consonants
3.3.3 Vowels
3.4 Phonology
3.4.1 Coarticulation and phonetic transcriptions
3.4.2 Phonological process and phonological rules
3.4.3 Suprasegmental features
Exercises
References
Chapter 4 Morphology
4.1 What is morphology?
4.2 Word, lexeme, lexicon and vocabulary
4.2.1 Three senses of "Word"
4.2.2 Classification of "Word"
4.2.3 Internal structure of "Word"
4.3 Inflection and word formation
4.3.1 Inflection
4.3.2 Word formation
4.4 Semantic change
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Chapter 5 Syntax
Chapter 6 Semantics
Chapter 7 Pragmatics
Chapter 8 Psycholinguistics
Chapter 9 Language,Culture and Society
Chapter 10 Applied Linguistics
Glossary and Index