The book will contain 8 chapters and each chapter will deal with a different topic.Besides, each chapter includes learning objectives, an explanatory chart with the basic key concepts, a pretask to allow for warmup discussion, a comprehensive text to cover the key concepts relevant to the topic, and many followup tasks, which help students acquire a practical outlook of the course and involve either pair work or group work.In addition, there is a chapter summary for students to review, a checklist for selfassessment purposes, and a few critical thinking exercises to develop students' problemsolving skills.The idea is to make Linguistics an appealing and engaging subject for students but also to allow the teacher some flexibility to select the exercises he / she wishes to cover in every chapter as well as the tasks he / she finds more suitable for the targetgroup.
CHAPTER 1 LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS? 1. Linguistics as a Science 2. Language and Linguistics 3. Origi and Functio of Language 4. Spoken and Written Language 5. Langue and Parole, Competence and Performance 6. Linguistics as a Field of Research 7. Different Approaches to Linguistics 8. Major Schools of Linguistics
CHAPTER 2 PHONETICS AND PHONOLOGY WHAT ARE SPEECH SOUNDS? 1. Sounds and Lette 2. Production of Sounds 3. Classification of Sounds 4. Tra cription of Sounds 5. Phonetics: Phones and Allophones 6. Phonology: Phonemes 7. Phonological Rules 8. Prosody: Intonation and Stress
CHAPTER 3 MORPHOLOGY WHAT ARE WORDS? 1. Words and Word Classes 2. Morphs, Allomorphs and Morphemes 3. Types of Morphemes 4. Inflectional and Derivational Morphology 5. Word Formation Processes
CHAPTER 4 SYNTAX WHAT IS GRAMMAR? 1. Grammar: Prescriptive and Descriptive 2. Grammaticality, Acceptability and Syntactic Ambiguity 3. Syntactic Structures 4. Syntactic Categories 5. Syntactic Functio 6. Types of Sentences 7. Types of Clauses
CHAPTER 5 SEMANTICS WHAT IS MEANING? 1. Meaning, Se e and Reference 2. Levels of Meaning: Lexical and Sentential 3. Componential Analysis 4. Synonymy, Antonymy, Homonymy and Hyponymy 5. Entailment, Presupposition, Inco istency, Contradiction, Tautology and Anomaly 6. Metaphorical Usage 7. Idiomatic Usage
CHAPTER 6 PRAGMATICS WHAT IS LANGUAGE USE? 1. Semantics ve us Pragmatics 2. Reference and Inference 3. Cohesion and Coherence 4. Locutionary, Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Acts 5. The Cooperative Principle 6. Conve ational Implicature 7. The Politeness Principle 8. Concept of 'Face'
CHAPTER 7 LANGUAGE VARIATION WHAT IS LANGUAGE VARIATION? 1. Sociolinguistics Language and Society 2. Accents and Dialects 3. Sociolects or Social Dialects 4. Register and Jargon 5. Jargon, Slang and Argot 6. Slang,Taboo and Euphemisms 7. Language and Culture
CHAPTER 8 LANGUAGE CHANGE WHAT IS LANGUAGE CHANGE? 1. Language and History 2. Internal Causes of Language Change 3. External Causes of Language Change 4. History of English 5. Changes in Pronunciation and Spelling 6. Changes in Grammar 7. Changes in Vocabulary 8. Changes in Meaning APPENDIX 1: KEY TO EXERCISES APPENDIX 2. BIBLIOGRAPHY
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