本《教程》1988年出版,受到广大教师和学生的欢迎,1992年获**教委**教材一等奖。2002年出修订版,对十余年来在语言学领域中的新进展做了充分反映,也补充了我国语言学研究的新进展。《教程》已成为广大高等院校招收语言研究生的**书目。在听取了在**线使用本书的广大师生意见后,胡壮麟教授组织力量,现推出第三版。除删繁就简外,对一些章节进行全面改写,以满足不同层次学校的需要。第三版增加了思考题和练习题的内容,配套出版附有全部答案的《练习册》。第三版**配有插图,提高了教材的趣味性和观赏性。

Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics
1.1 Why Study Language?
1.2 What Is Language?
1.3 Design Features of Language
1.4 Origin of Language
1.5 Functions of Language
1.6 What Is Linguistics?
1.7 Main Branches of Linguistics
1.8 Macrolinguistics
1.9 Important Distinctions in Linguistics
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Speech Sounds
2.1 How Speech Sounds Are Made?
2.2 Consonants and Vowels
2.3 From Phonetics to Phonology
2.4 Phonological Processes,Phonological Rules and Distinctive Features
2.5 Suprasegmentals
Further Reading
Chapter 3 Lexicon
3.1 What Is Word?
3.2 The Formation of Word
Further Reading
Chapter 4 From Word to Text
4.1 Syntactic Relations
4.2 Grammatical Construction and Its Coonstituents
4.3 Syntactic Function
4.4 Category
4.5 Phrase Clause and Sentence
4.6 Recursiveness
4.7 Beyond the Sentence
Further Reading
Chapter 5 Meaning
5.1 Meanings of“MEANING”
5.2 The Referential Theory
5.3 Sense Relations
5.4 Componential Analysis
5.5 Sentence Meaning
Further Reading
Chapter 6 Language and Cognition
6.1 What Is Cognition?
6.2 What Is Psycholinguistics?
6.3 What Cognitive Linguistics?
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Language,Culture,and Society
Chapter 8 Language in Use
Chapter 9 Language and Literature
Chapter 10 Language and Computer
Chapter 11 Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching
Chapter 12 Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics
Questions and Exercises
Bibliography
Glossary and Index