胡壮麟、叶起昌编著的《语言学理论与流派》注重培养学生的跨文化交际能力和文化鉴赏与批判能力，在教材设计时体现“全球视野，中国视角”的理念，即教材在保持各门课程的思想性和批判性的优良传统外，既向学生提供西方文化背景知识，也引导学生鉴赏和学习我国的优秀文化传统。让学生在多元文化背景下，熟悉掌握中外文化的共同点和差异。在这个基础上，培养学生的鉴别和比较能力，启发和诱导学生进行创新思维。全书共分16章，具体内容包括“The History of Linguistics in China”“The Copenhagen School”“Andre Martinet and Robert de Beaugrande”该书可供各大专院校作为教材使用，也可供从事相关工作的人员作为参考用书使用。

Part One Linguistics in Antiquity

Chapter One The History of Linguistics Since Plato

 1.1 Plato

1.1.1 Function of language

1.1.2 Nature versus convention

1.1.3 Idea and reality

1.1.4 Denotation and connotation

 1.2 Aristotle

1.2.1 Rhetoric

1.2.2 Rational investigation of language

1.2.3 Categories

1.2.4 Form

1.2.5 Poetics

 1.3 The Stoics

1.3.1 Logic

1.3.2 Signification, signifier and the name-bearer

 1.4 The Alexandrian School

1.4.1 Meter and poetry

1.4.2 Dionysius Thrax

1.4.3 Apollonius Dyscolus

 1.5 Roman linguistics

1.5.1 Varro

1.5.2 Priscian

 1.6 Medieval linguistics

1.6.1 Speculative grammar

1.6.2 Modistae

 1.7 Cartesian linguistics

1.7.1 Language is human-specific

1.7.2 Mind and body

1.7.3 Mind and ideas

1.7.4 Semantic interpretation versus phonetic interpretation

1.7.5 Universality and Port-Royal Grammar

 1.8 Historical-Comparative linguistics and Neogrammarian

1.8.1 Historical linguistics

1.8.2 Comparative linguistics

1.8.3 The Neogrammarians

 1.9 Linguistics in ancient India

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Chapter Two The History of Linguistics in China

Part Two Structuralism

Chapter Three Saussure: The Path to Synchrony

Chapter Four American Structuralism

Part Three Pioneers in Functionalism

Chapter Five The Prague School

Chapter Six The Copenhagen School

Chapter Seven The London School

Part Four Functionalism

Chapter Eight Systemic-Functional Linguistics

Chapter Nine Andre Martinet and Robert de Beaugrande

Chapter Ten American Functionalism

Chapter Eleven Pragmatics

Part Five Generativism

Chapter Twelve Transformational Generative Grammar

Chapter Thirteen Non-Transformational Approaches

Part Six Cognitivism

Chapter Fourteen Conceptual Metaphor Theory

Chapter Fifteen Cognitive Grammar and Construction Grammar

Chapter Sixteen Cognitive Semantics