本书参考已出版的语言学流派著述、语言学专著、网络及电子资源和新版语言学百科全书.循语言学史对各个流派及其代表人物进行介述。不仅介绍了各学派的主要观点、后续研究及发展变化、一些学派之间的联系、其中还涉及了国内较少提到的几个语言学派别、以及语言学的*新发展动向及其思想理论基础等,在已有著述的基础上力求多维度创新。为了体现语言学*新的发展,它尽可能的扩大覆盖的范围并突出对各个流派的梳理.因此本书希望在语言学流派著述研究方面尝试更全、更新一点做出微薄的探索。

Chapter 1 Introduction: Linguistics and Schools of Linguistics
1.1 What Is Linguistics?
1.2 Schools of Linguistics
Chapter Traditional Grammar
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Sanskrit Grammar in Ancient India
2.2 Grammar in Ancient Greece
2.3 Grammar in Ancient Rome
2.4 Grammar in the Middle Ages
2.5 Linguistics from the Renaissance to the 18th Century
2.6 Linguistic Tradition in the Middle East and China
2.7 Summary
Chapter 3 Historical and Comparative Linguistics
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Early Development of Historical Linguistics
3.2 Rask, Grimm and Bopp
3.3 Wilhelm von Humboldt
3.4 Historical Linguistics in the Mid - 19th Century
3.5 The Study of Ablaut
3.6 Neogrammarians
3.7 Jespersen and International Phonetic Alphabet
3.8 Summary
Chapter 4 Schools of European Structuralism
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Saussure and Course in General Linguistics
4.1.1 Historical Background and Sources of Saussure's Ideas
4.1.2 Saussure's Contributions to General Linguistics
4.1.2.1 Langue vs.Parole
4.1.2.2 Signifier vs.Signified
4.1.2.3 Arbitrariness
4.1.2.4 Linear Nature ( Syntagmatic vs.Paradigmatic)
4.1.2.5 Synchronic Linguistics vs.Diachronic Linguistics …… Chapter 5 SchooIs of American Descriptivism and Structuralism Chapter 6 Generative ZSchools Chapter 7 London School Chapter 8 Systemic Functional School Chapter 9 American Functional Schools Chapter 10 Cognitive Linguistic School