Chapter 1Linguistics—A Pilot Science 1.1Why Study Linguistics? 1.2What Is Language?—Defining the Object of Study 1.3Origin of Language 1.4Design Features of Language 1.5Animal Communication Systems, Gesture and Other Language Forms 1.6Perspectives of Language Studies 1.7Functions of Language 1.8Important Distinctions in Linguistics 1.9Data of Linguistics 1.10Status and Prospect of Linguistics
Chapter 2Phonological Analysis 2.1Transcribing Speech Sounds 2.2Consonants and Vowels 2.3Phonemic vs. Phonetic Transcriptions 2.4Distinctive Features and Rule Representation 2.5Suprasegmentals and Feature Geometry 2.6Optimality Theory 2.7Conclusion
Chapter 3Morphology 3.1Morphemes, Morphs and Allomorphs 3.2Classification of Morphemes 3.3Morphemization 3.4Allomorphy 3.5Word, Wordform and Lexeme 3.6Morphology and Wordformation 3.7Approaches and Problems
Chapter 4Generative Syntax 4.1Generative Grammar: Some Basic Assumptions 4.2Phrase Structure Rules 4.3Projection from Lexicon 4.4The Minimalist Approach
Chapter 8Language, Culture, and Society 8.1Introduction 8.2Language and Culture 8.3Language and Society 8.4Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching 8.5Summary
Chapter 10Pragmatics 10.1Introduction 10.2Speech Act Theory 10.3The Classical Theory of Implicature 10.4PostGricean Theories 10.5Recent Developments in Pragmatics
Chapter 11Issues of Stylistics 11.1Introduction 11.2Style and Stylistics 11.3Style as Rhetoric: The Initial Stage of Stylistics 11.4One Style or Several Styles? 11.5Aspects of Style: The Writerstyle as Writer’s Individual/Personal Singularities 11.6Aspects of Style: The Textstyle as Linguistic Sameness (Structural Equivalence) 11.7Aspects of Style: The Textstyle as Linguistic Difference (Deviation or Foregrounding) 11.8Aspects of Style: The Readerstyle as Reader’s Response 11.9Aspects of Style: The Context: Style as Function 11.10Aspects of Style: The Meaning: Style as Meaning Potential 11.11Concluding Remarks: Linguistics, Literary Criticism, and Stylistics
Chapter 12Computational Linguistics 12.1What is Computational Linguistics? 12.2Machine Translation 12.3Corpus Linguistics 12.4Information Retrieval 12.5Looking into the Future
Chapter 13Second Language Acquisition 13.1Introduction 13.2The Role of Internal Mechanisms 13.3The Role of Native Language 13.4Input, Interaction and Output 13.5Nonlanguage Influences 13.6Summary
Chapter 14Modern Theories and Schools of Linguistics 14.1The Beginning of Modern Linguistics 14.2The Prague School and the Copenhagen School 14.3The London School 14.4Halliday and SystemicFunctional Grammar 14.5American Structuralism 14.6Chomsky and TransformationalGenerative Grammar 14.7Revisionist/Rebellious Theories 14.8Concluding Remarks
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