Contents
Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics
Chapter 2 Phonetics: The Study of Speech Sounds
Chapter 3 Phonology: The Study of Sound Systems and Patterns.
Chapter 4 Morphology: The Study of Word Structure.
Chapter 5 Syntax: The Analysis of Sentence Structure
Chapter 6 Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning
Chapter 7 Pragmatics: The Analysis of Meaning in Context.
Chapter 8 Text Analysis: Exploring Principles of Text Construction
Chapter 9 Language and Society
Chapter 10 Language and Culture .
Chapter 11 Second Language Acquisition
Chapter 12 Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching
References
Key to Exercises.
An English-Chinese Glossary
Appendix Ⅰ The Indo-European Language Family
Appendix Ⅱ Families/Groups of Languages.
Appendix Ⅲ 語言學學習方法舉要.