本课程主要讲授语言学的核心分支的知识（语音学、音系学、形态学、句法学、语义学和语用学）。通过学习，学生能掌握语言分析的术语和方法，由此运用到对各种语言的描述和分析。
Overview
Syllabus
- Chapter One Introduction
- 1.1 An Introduction to Linguistics
- 1.2 Definition of Linguistics
- 1.3 Scope of Linguistics
- 1.4 Some Distinctions in Linguistics
- 1.5 What is Language?
- 1.6 Design Features of Language
- 1.7 Functions of Language
- 1.8 Origins of Language
- Chapter Two The Sounds of Languge
- 2.1 Introduction and Speech Organs
- 2.2 English Consonants and Vowels
- 2.3 Phonology
- 2.4 Conclusion
- Chapter Three Morphology
- 3.1 Definition of Morpheme
- 3.2 Classifcation of Morphemes
- 3.3 Categories of Word Formation
- 3.4 Major Processes of Word Formation
- 3.5 Minor Processes of Word Formation
- Chapter Four Syntax
- 4.1 Introduction and Tree Diagram
- 4.2 Rewrite Rules and Two Levels of Structures
- 4.3 Conclusion
- Chapter Five Semantics
- 5.1 Leech: Seven Types of Meaning
- 5.2 Sense and Reference
- 5.3 Sense Relatinships Between Words
- 5.4 Semantic Relationship Between Sentences
- Chapter Six Pragmatics
- 6.1 Introduction to Pragmatics
- 6.2 Speech Act Theory
- 6.3 The Cooperative Principle and Politeness Principle
- Chapter Seven Discourse Analysis
- 7.1 Discourse analysis
- 7.2 Information Structure
- 7.3 Cohesion
- 7.4 Discourse Markers
- 7.5 Conversational Analysis
- 7.6 Sources and Suggestions
- Chapter Eight Sociolinguistics
- 8.1 Language Varieties
- 8.2 Dialect
- 8.3 Register
- 8.4 Pidgins and Creoles
- 8.5 Bilingualism and Multilingualism
- 8.6 Diglossia
- 8.7 Code Swtiching
- 8.8 Summary
- Chapter Nine Language Acquisition
- 9.1 The Behaviorist Approach
- 9.2 The Innateness Approach
- 9.3 Language Development
- 9.4 What Second Language Learners Acquire
- 9.5 How Learners Acquire a Second Language
- 9.6 Individual Differences
- 9.7 Instruction and L2 Acquisition
Taught by
Shangyuan Yan, Chengdong Xiang, Yunjing Li, Li Qu, Yan Li, Zhang Lei, , and
