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.

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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

 Workshop

 Appreciation of linguistic research

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

 6.1 Sentence, syntactic category and constituent

 6.2 Tree diagrams

 6.3 Heads and complements

 6.4 Phrase structure rules

 6.5 Surface structures and deep structures

 6.6 Universal Grammar

 Summary

 Workshop

 Appreciation of linguistic research

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

 7.1 The classification of meaning

 7.2 Componential analysis

 7.3 Sense relation

 7.4 Collocations

 7.5 Metaphors

 7.6 Metonymy

 Summary

 Workshop

 Appreciation of linguistic research

Chapter 8 What Is the Study of Meaning by Language? --Pragmatics

  8.1 Distinction of pmgmatics

 8.2 Pragmatic meaning

 8.3 Speech act

 8.4 Conversation and interaction

 Summary

 Workshop

 Appreciation of linguistic research

References

Workshop Key

Glossary

Subject Index