Chapter 1 Towards Linguistics: Some Fundamental Concepts
1.1 What Is Language?
1.2 Design Features
1.3 Functions of Language
1.4 The Origin of Language
1.5 What Is Linguistics?
1.6 Areas of General Linguistics
1.7 Guiding Principles for Linguistic Studies
1.8 Some Basic Distinctions in Linguistics
Exercises
References
Chapter 2 Speech Sounds
2.1 Speech Production and Perception
2.2 Speech Organs
2.3 Consonants
2.4 Vowels
2.5 Coarticulation and Phonetic Transcription
2.6 Phonological Analysis
2.7 Phonemes and Allophones
2.8 Distinctive Features
2.9 Phonological Processes
2.10 Suprasegmental Features
Exercises
References
Chapter 3 Lexicon
3.1 Lexicon
3.2 Word
3.3 Morpheme
3.4 Inflection and Word-Formation
3.5 Phonology and Morphology
3.6 Lexical Change
3.7 Idiom
3.8 Collocation
Exercises
References
Chapter 4 Syntax
4.1 The Traditional Approach
4.2 The Structural Approach
4.3 The Generative Approach
Exercises
References
Chapter 5 Meaning
5.1 Meanings of "Meaning"
5.2 Different Approaches to Meaning
5.3 Word Meaning
5.4 Sentence Meaning
5.5 Semantic Analysis
Exercises
References
Chapter 6 Psycholinguistics
6.1 First Language Acquisition
6.2 Second Language Acquisition
6.3 Language Comprehension
6.4 Language Production
Exercises
References
Chapter 7 Language, Culture and Society
7.1 Language and Culture
7.2 Language and Society
Exercises
References
Chapter 8 Pragmatics
8.1 Speech Act Theory
8.2 The Theory of Conversational Implicature
8.3 Conversational Analysis
Exercises
References
Chapter 9 Stylistics
9.1 How to Define Stylistics?
9.2 Potential Stylistic Features
9.3 Literary Stylistics
Exercises
References
Chapter 10 Foreign Language Teaching and Testing
10.1 Theories of Foreign Language Teaching
10.2 Syllabus Design
10.3 Testing
10.4 Summary
Exercises
References
Chapter 11 Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics
11.1 The Beginning of Modem Linguistics
11.2 American Structuralist Linguistics
11.3 Functionalist Linguistics Theories
11.4 Transformational-Generative Grammar
Exercises
References
Keys to the Exercises