蓝纯,北京外国语大学英语学院教授、博士生导师。1990年毕业于北京外国语大学英语系,1993年获北京外国语大学英语语言学硕士学位,2000年获香港理工大学英语语言学博士学位。主要研究领域为认知语言学、语用学、修辞学、翻译。已出版专著及教材十部,包括A Cognitive Approach to Spatial Metaphors in English and Chinese(2003)、《语用学与〈红楼梦〉赏析》(2007)、《语言导论》(2007)、《语言学概论》(2009)、《修辞学:理论与实践》(2010)),其中《语言导论》被评为2008年北京市高等教育精品教材,《语言学概论》被评为国家十二五规划教材;并在相关知名期刊上发表众多论文,其中包括《Linguistic Categorization导读》、《Pragmatics导读》、《认知语言学与隐喻研究》和《从认知角度看汉英空间隐喻》;另有译著四部,在国内外学术刊物上发表论文20余篇。2004年获霍英东教育基金高校优秀青年教师奖。目前面向研究生承担的主要课程有语用学、认知语言学、修辞学;面向本科生承担的主要课程有语音、语言学概论。
【目录】
chapter 1 properties of language
1 introduction-nature or nurture?
2 the nature of language
2.1 creativity
2.2 arbitrariness of linguistic signs
2.3 duality
2.4 discement
2.5 structure-dependence
3 linguistic petence and linguistic performance
4 descriptive grammar and prescriptive grammar
5 summary
exercises
references
chapter 2 the structures of language
1 introduction
1.1 levels of linguistic organization
1.2 how many levels are there?
1.3 evidence of structures
2 patterns of speech sounds:phonology
3 the words of language:morphology
3.1 what is a morpheme?
3.2 derivational morphology
3.3 inflectional morphology
4 sentence structures:syntax
4.1 word order
4.2 grammaticality judgment
4.3 ambiguity
4.4 recursiveness
5 summary
exercises
references
chapter 3 meaning of language
1 meaning in the objective world
1.1 arbitrariness and iconicity
1.2 linguistic relativity and determinism
1.3 the logical approach to language meaning
2 meaning in the language system
2.1 the many meanings of a word
2.2 some well-known word relations
2.3 ponential analysis
2.4 meaning beyond words
3 summary
exercises
references
chapter 4 origins of language
1 introduction
2 defining the topic
2.1 the origin,the origins or origins of language?
2.2 speech or written language?
2.3 origins of language in general or origins of specific languages?
2.4 the meanings of the word origin
2.5 where do we look for evidence?
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chapter 5 language in use:the pragmatic perspective
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