Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics 1
1.1 Why study language? 1
1.2 What is language? 3
1.3 Design features of language 3
1.3.1 Arbitrariness 4
1.3.2 Duality 6
1.3.3 Creativity 7
1.3.4 Displacement 8
1.4 Origin of language 9
1.5 Functions of language 10
1.5.1 Informative 11
1.5.2 Interpersonal function 12
1.5.3 Performative 13
1.5.4 Emotive function 13
1.5.5 Phatic communion 14
1.5.6 Recreational function 15
1.5.7 Metalingual function 16
1.6 What is linguistics? 16
1.7 Main branches of linguistics 17
1.7.1 Phonetics 17
1.7.2 Phonology 18
1.7.3 Morphology 19
1.7.4 Syntax 19
1.7.5 Semantics 20
1.7.6 Pragmatics 20
1.8 Macrolinguistics 20
1.8.1 Psycholinguistics 21
1.8.2 Sociolinguistics 21
1.8.3 Anthropological linguistics 22
1.8.4 Computational linguistics 22
1.9 Important distinctions in linguistics 23
1.9.1 Descriptives.prescriptive 23
1.9.2 Synchronic vs.diachronic 24
1.9.3 Langue&parole 24
1.9.4 Competence and performance 25
1.9.5 Etic vs.Emic 26
Further Reading 27
Questions and Exercises 28
Chapter 2 Speech Sounds 31
2.1 Speech production and perception 31
2.2 Speech organs 32
2.3 Segments,divergences,and phonetic transcription 36
2.3.1 Segments and divergences 36
2.3.2 Phonetic transcription 36
2.4 Consonants 39
2.4.1 Consonants and vowels 39
2.4.2 Consonants 39
2.4.3 Manners of articulation 40
2.4.4 Places of articulation 42
2.4.5 The consonants of English 44
2.5 Vowels 45
2.5.1 The criteria of vowel description 45
2.5.2 The theory of cardinal vowels 46
2.5.3 Vowel glides 48
2.5.4 The vowels ofRP 48
2.6 Coarticulation and phonetic transcription 52
2.6.1 Coarticulation 52
2.6.2 Broad and narrow transcriptions 53
2.7 Phonological analysis 54
2.8 Phonemes and allophones 55
2.8.1 Minimal pairs 55
2.8.2 The phoneme theory 57
2.8.3 Allophones 57
2.9 Phonological processes 60
2.9.1 Assimilation 60
2.9.2 Phonological processes and phonological rules 61
2.9.3 Rule ordering 63
2.10 Distinctive features 66
2.11 Syllables 68
2.11.1 The syllable structure 68
2.11.2 Sonority scale 70
2.11.3 Syllabification and the maximal onset principle 71
2.12 Stress 71
Further Reading 72
Questions and Exercises 73
Chapter 3 Lexicon 76
3.1 What is word? 76
3.1.1 Three senses of“word” 76
3.1.2 Identification of words 78
3.1.3 Classification of words 80
3.2 The formation of word 84
3.2.1 Morpheme and morphology 84
3.2.2 Types ofmorphemes 84
3.2.3 Inflection and word formation 88
3.2.4 The counterpoint of phonology and morphology 93
3.3 Lexical change 96
3.3.1 Lexical change proper 97
3.3.2 Phonological change 103
3.3.3 Morpho-syntactical change 105
3.3.4 Semantic change 107
3.3.5 Orthographic change 110
Further Reading 110
Questions and Exercises 111
Chapter 4 Syntax 115
4.1 The traditional approach 115
4.1.1 Number,gender and case 116
4.1.2 Tense and aspect 117
4.1.3 Concord and government 118
4.2 The structural approach 119
4.2.1 Syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations 119
4.2.2 Immediate constituent analysis 122
4.2.3 Endocentric and exocentric constructions 129
4.3 The generative approach 131
4.3.1 Deep and surface structures 132
4.3.2 The standard theory and after 135
4.3.3 Government,binding,etc 140
4.4 The functional approach 148
4.4.1 Functional sentence perspective 148
4.4.2 Systemic-functional grammar 150
Further Reading 155
Questions and Exercises 156
Chapter 5 Meaning 158
5.1 Meanings of“meaning” 158
5.2 The referential theory 160
5.3 Sense relations 163
5.3.1 Synonymy 163
5.3.2 Antonymy 164
5.3.3 Hyponymy 168
5.4 Componential analysis 170
5.5 Sentence meaning 173
5.5.1 An integrated theory 174
5.5.2 Logical semantics 179
Further Reading 187
Questions and Exercises 188
Chapter 6 Language Processing in Mind 191
6.1 Introduction 191
6.1.1 Evidence 192
6.1.2 Current issues 193
6.2 Language comprehension 194
6.2.1 Word recognition 195
6.2.2 Lexical ambiguity 198
6.2.3 Syntactic processing 199
6.2.4 Semantics and sentence memory 202
6.2.5 Basic processes in reading 204
6.3 Discourse/text interpretations 206
6.3.1 Schemata and inference drawing 207
6.3.2 Story structure 210
6.4 Language production 212
6.4.1 Speech production 212
6.4.2 Written language 215
Further Reading 217
Questions and Exercises 218
Chapter 7 Language,Culture,and Society 223
7.1 Language and culture 223
7.1.1 How does language relate to culture? 223
7.1.2 More about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis 228
7.1.3 Case studies 232
7.1.4 To which extent do we need culture in our linguistic study? 233
7.1.5 Culture in language teaching classroom 234
7.2 Language and society 235
7.2.1 How does language relate to society? 235
7.2.2 A situationally and socially variationist perspective 236
7.2.3 What should we know more about sociolinguistics? 239
7.2.4 What implications can we get from sociolinguistics? 240
7.3 Summary 242
Further Reading 243
Questions and Exercises 244
Chapter 8 Language in Use 246
8.1 Speech act theory 247
8.1.1 Performatives and constatives 247
8.1.2 A theory of the illocutionary act 249
8.2 The theory of conversational implicature 252
8.2.1 The cooperative principle 252
8.2.2 Violation of the maims 255
8.2.3 Characteristics ofimplicature 258
8.3 Post-Gricean developments 262
8.3.1 Relevance theory 263
8.3.2 The Q-and R-principles 266
8.3.3 The Q-,I-and M-principles 272
Further Reading 279
Questions and Exercises 280
Chapter 9 Language and Literature 282
9.1 Theoretical background 282
9.2 Some general features of the literary language 284
9.2.1 Foregrounding and grammatical form 284
9.2.2 Literal language and figurative language 286
9.2.3 The analysis of literary language 288
9.3 The language in poetry 290
9.3.1 Sound patterning 290
9.3.2 Different forms of sound patterning 291
9.3.3 Stress and metrical patterning 292
9.3.4 Conventional forms of metre and sound 294
9.3.5 The poetic functions of sound and metre 295
9.3.6 How to analyse poetry? 296
9.4 The language in fiction 298
9.4.1 Fictional prose and point of view 298
9.4.2 Speech and thought presentation 301
9.4.3 Prose style 306
9.4.4 How to analyse the language of fiction? 307
9.5 The language in drama 308
9.5.1 How should we analyse drama? 308
9.5.2 Analysing dramatic language 310
9.5.3 How to analyse dramatic texts? 316
Further Reading 317
Questions and Exercises 318
Chapter 10 Language and Computer 320
10.1 Computer-assisted language learning(CALL) 321
10.1.1 CAL/CAI vs CALL 321
10.1.2 Phases of CALL development 322
10.1.3 Technology 324
10.2 Machine translation 326
10.2.1 History of development 326
10.2.2 Research methods 329
10.2.3 MT quality 332
10.2.4 MT and the Internet 333
10.2.5 Spoken language translation 334
10.2.6 MT and human translation 335
10.3 Corpuslinguistics 336
10.3.1 Definition 336
10.3.2 Criticisms and the revival of corpus linguistics 337
10.3.3 Concordance 338
10.3.4 Text encoding and annotation 339
10.3.5 The roles of corpus data 341
10.4 Information retrieval 344
10.4.1 Scope defined 344
10.4.2 An information retrieval system 345
10.4.3 Three main areas of reearch 346
10.5 Mail and news 347
Further Reading 349
Questions and Exercises 350
Chapter 11 Linguistics and Foreign Languagereaching 352
11.1 The relation of linguistics to foreign language teaching 352
11.2 Various linguistic views and their significance in language learning and teaching 354
11.2.1 Traditional grammar 354
11.2.2 Structuralist linguistics 354
11.2.3 Transformational-Generative linguistics 355
11.2.4 Functional linguistics 356
11.2.5 The theory of communicative competence 356
11.3 Syllabus design 358
11.3.1 What is syllabus? 358
11.3.2 Major factors in syllabus design 358
11.3.3 Types of syllabus 359
11.4 Language learning 366
11.4.1 Grammar and language learning 368
11.4.2 Input and language learning 370
11.4.3 Interlanguage in language learning 372
11.5 Error analysis 374
11.5.1 Errors,mistakes,and error analysis 374
11.5.2 Attitudes to errors 374
11.5.3 Procedure of error analysis 376
11.5.4 Contrastive analysis and non-contrastive analysis 376
11.6 Testing 378
11.6.1 Two different approaches to testing 379
11.6.2 Types of test 379
11.6.3 Requirements of a good test 380
11.6.4 Test content and test form 383
11.6.5 Marking and interpretation of scores 384
11.7 Summarv 386
Further Reading 387
Questions and Exercises 388
Chapter 12 Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics 392
12.0 Introduction 392
12.1 The Prague School 394
12.1.1 Introduction 394
12.1.2 Phonology and phonological oppositions 395
12.1.3 Functional Sentence Perspective(FSP) 397
12.2 The London Scbool 401
12.2.1 Malinowski's theories 402
12.2.2 Firth's theories 404
12.2.3 Halliday and Systemic-Functional Grammar 408
12.3 American Structuralism 423
12.3.1 Early period:Boas and Sapir 424
12.3.2 Bloomfield's theory 427
12.3.3 Post-Bloomfieldian linguistics 429
12.4 Transformational-Generative Grammar 433
12.4.1 The innateness hypothesis 434
12.4.2 What is a generative grammar? 437
12.4.3 The Classical Theory 438
12.4.4 The Standard Theory 444
12.4.5 The Extended Standard Theory 446
12.4.6 Later theories 449
12.4.7 Main features of TG Grammar 452
12.5 Revisionists?Rebels? 452
12.5.1 Case Grammar 452
12.5.2 Generative Semantics 454
Further Reading 457
Questions and Exercises 459
Bibliography 460
Key to Questions and Exercises 478
Glossary and Index 499
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