《安徽省高等学校"十二五"规划教材:英语语言学(第2版)》课程是英语类专业主干课程之一。它涉及到语音学、音系学、词素学、句法学、语义学、语用学、社会语言学、应用语言学、认知语言学、计算语言学等内容，具有交叉学科的特点。在本科生阶段，《安徽省高等学校"十二五"规划教材:英语语言学(第2版)》课程的学习有助于学生了解英语语言学的理论知识以及核心问题，使学生不仅知其然，而且知其所以然。同时，也有助于学生运用所学的英语语言学知识去解决英语使用中的问题。

前言
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.What Is Linguistics？
1.1 Definition of Linguistics
1.2 Main Branches of Linguistics
1.3 Why Study Language？
2.What Is Language？
2.1 Definition of Language
2.2 Design Features of Language
3.Important Distinctions in Linguistics
3.1 Prescriptive Vs.Descriptive
3.2 Synchronic Vs.Diachronic
3.3 Speech Vs.Writing
3.4 Langue Vs.Parole
3.5 Competence Vs.Performance
Exercises
Further Readings
Chapter 2 Phonetics
1.The Phonic Medium of Language
2.Phonetics
2.1 What Is Phonetics？
2.2 Organs of Speech
2.3 Classification of English Speech Sounds
2.4 Broad Transcription and Narrow Transcription
Exercises
Further Readings
Chapter 3 Phonology
1.General Introduction to Phonology
2.Basic Concepts of Phonology
2.1 Phone， Phoneme and Allophone
2.2 Phonemic Contrast， Complementary Distribution and Minimal Pair
3.Some Phonological Rules
3.1 Sequential Rules
3.2 Assimilation Rules
4.Suprasegmental Features： Stress， Tone and Intonation
4.1 Stress
4.2 Tone
4.3 Intonation
Exercises
Further Readings
Chapter 4 Morphology
1.Morphology
2.Morphemes
3.Types of Morphemes
3.1 Free Morphemes
3.2 Bound Morphemes
4.Allomorph
5.Word Formation Rules
5.1 Compounding
5.2 Derivation
5.3 Conversion
5.4 Clipping
5.5 Initialism
5.6 Acronym
5.7 Blending
5.8 Back—formation
Exercises
Further Reading
Chapter 5 Syntax
1.Syntactic Categories
2.Combinational Rules
3.Sentence Structure
3.1 The Structural Approach and IC Analysis
3.2 Advantages and Problems of IC Analysis
3.3 Transformational—generative Grammar
4.Universal Grammar
4.1 The Observational Basis of UG
4.2 General Principles of UG
4.3 General Parameters of UG
Exercises
Further Readings
Chapter 6 Semantics
1.General Introduction
2.Approaches to Semantics
2.1 The Naming Theory
2.2 The Conceptualist Theory
2.3 Contextualism
2.4 Behaviorism
3.Lexical Meaning
3.1 Sense and Reference
3.2 Major Semantic Relationships between Words
4.Sentence Meaning
5.Analysis of Meaning
5.1 Cornponential Analysis——a Way to Analyze Lexical Meaning
5.2 Predication Analysis——a Way to Analyze Sentence Meaning
Exercises
Further Readings
Chapter 7 Pragmatics
1.What Is Pragmatics？
2.Context
3.Presupposition
4.Speech Acts
5.Cooperative Principle and Conversational Implications
6.Deixis
7.Politeness Principle
Exercises
Further Readings
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Chapter 8 Language and Society
Chapter 9 Language and Culture
Chapter 10 Language and Acquisition
Chapter 11 Cognitive Linguistics
Chapter 12 Computer and Linguistics
References