本书以通俗的英语向读者介绍了当代语言学所涉及的诸多领域和学科,包括语言的定义、词汇学、语义学、音位学、句法学、文体学等,是一本融知识性与趣味性于一体的语言学入门教科书。
This book introduces the nature of language. It deals with the sounds that we make when we speak, with the way in which we construct sentences, with the ways in which our speech varies between social situations, and so no. It does so by the commonly adopted method of having chapters with such headings as phonetics, syntax, social variation. Less conventionally, it has a major chapter which, againse the backgr

Preface
Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
导读
1 What Is language?
1.1 The Sinmificance of Language
1.2 What Is Language?
1.3 The Functions of language
1.4 What Is a language?
1.5 The Elements of language
Summary
Exercises
2 Lexis
2.1 What Is a Word?
2.2 Where Do Words Come From?
Summary
Exercises
3 Sexia
3.1 The Function of lexemes
3.2 The meaning of meaning
3.3 Semantic Range
3.4 The Definition of Semantic Range
3.5 Collocation and Idiom
3.6 Homonyny and Idiom
3.7 The Human Element of Meaning
3.8 Pragmatics
3.9 Pragmatics
Summary
Exercises
4 Phonetics
4.1 The Organs of Speech
4.2 Comsonants
4.3 Phonemic Notation
4.4 Vowels
4.5 Sounds in Sequence
Summary
Exercises
5 Phonology
5.1 Sound Sydtens of Lanuages
5.2 The Phoneme
5.3 Phoniological Rules
5.4 The Phonology of English
5.5 The Phonoloty of Other languages
5.6 Supraesgmental Features
Summary
Exercises
6 Morphology
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7 Syntax
8 Tegional Variation
9 Social Variation
10 Historical Linguistics
11 The Languages of Western Europe
12 Writing Systems
Glossary
Guide to Exercises
Bibliography
Indes
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