本繫列教材按照英語專業教學大綱設計，旨在打造完整的英語專業學科體繫，全面促進學生的語言技能、學科素養和創新能力的培養，為我國培養國際化、創新型、高素質的英語專業人纔奠定基礎。本次整合改版並重新設計裝幀後出版，以更好地適應市場需求。
《新編簡明英語語言學教程（第2版）/新世紀高等院校英語專業本科生繫列教材（修訂版）》為其中的語言學教程，供語言學課程使用。

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1．1 What is linguistics?
1．1．1 Definition
1．1．2 The scope of linguistics
1．1．3 Some important distinctions in linguistics
1．2 What is language?
1．2．1 Definitions of language
1．2．2 Design features of language
1．2．3 Functions of language
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Chapter 2 Phonology
2．1 The phonic medium of language
2．2 Phonetics
2．2．1 What is phonetics?
2．2．2 Organs of speech
2．2．3 Orthographic representation of speech sounds ——broad and narrow transcriptions
2．2．4 Classification of English speech sounds
2．3 Phonology
2．3．1 Phonology and phonetics
2．3．2 Phone， phoneme， and allophone
2．3．3 Phonemic contrast， complementary distribution， and minimal pair
2．3．4 Some rules in phonology
2．3．5 Suprasegmental features —— stress， tone， intonation
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Chapter 3 Morphology
3．1 Introduction
3．2 Open class and closed class
3．3 Morphemes —— the minimal units of meaning
3．4 Analyzing word structures
3．5 Derivational and inflectional morphemes
3．6 Morphological rules of word formation
3．7 Derivation
3．8 Compounds
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Chapter 4 Syntax
4．1 What is syntax?
4．2 Categories
4．2．1 Word-level categories
4．2．2 Phrase categories and their structures
4．3 Phrase structure rule
4．3．1 XPrule
4．3．2 Coordination rule
4．4 Phrase elements
4．4．1 Specifiers
4．4．2 Complements
4．4．3 Modifiers
4．5 Sentences （The S rule）
4．6 Transformations
4．6．1 Auxiliary movement
4．6．2 Do insertion
4．6．3 Deep structure and surface structure
4．6．4 Wh movement
4．6．5 Move a and constraints on transformations
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Chapter 5
5．1 What is semantics?
5．2 Some views concerning the study of meaning
5．2．1 The naming theory
5．2．2 The conceptualist view
5．2．3 Contextualism
5．2．4 Behaviorism
5．3 Lexical meaning
5．3．1 Sense and reference
5．3．2 Major sense relations
5．4 Sense relations between sentences
5．5 Analysis of meaning
5．5．1 Componential analysis —— a way to analyze lexical meaning
5．5．2 Predication analysis —— a way to analyze sentence meaning
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Chapter 6 Pragmatics
6．1 Some basic notions
6．1．1 Definition
6．1．2 Pragmatics vs． semantics
6．1．3 Context
6．1．4 Sentence meaning vs． utterance meaning
6．2 Speech act theory
6．2．1 Austin's model of speech acts
6．2．2 Searle's classification of speech acts
6．2．3 Indirect speech acts
6．3 Principle of conversation
6．4 Cross-cultural pragmatic failure
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Chapter 7 Language Change
7．1 Introduction
7．2 Phonological changes
7．3 Morphological and syntactic change
7．3．1 Addition of affixes
7．3．2 Loss of affixes
7．3．3 Change of word order
7．3．4 Change in negation rule
7．4 Lexical and semantic change
7．4．1 Addition of new words
7．4．2 Loss of words
7．4．3 Semantic changes
7．5 Some recent trends
7．5．1 Moving towards greater informality
7．5．2 The influence of American English
7．5．3 The influence of science and technology
7．6 The causes of language change
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Chapter 8 Language and Society
8．1 The scope of sociolinguistics
8．1．1 The relatedness between language and society
8．1．2 Speech community and speech variety
8．1．3 Two approaches to sociolinguistic studies
8．2 Varieties of language
8．2．1 Dialectal varieties
8．2．2 Register
8．2．3 Degree of formality
8．3 Standard dialect
8．4 Pidgin and Creole
8．5 Bilingualism and diglossia
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Chapter 9 Language and Culture
9．1 Introduction
9．2 What is culture?
9．3 The relationship between language and culture
9．4 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
9．5 Linguistic evidence of cultural differences
9．5．1 Greetings and terms of address
9．5．2 Gratitude and compliments
9．5．3 Colour words
9．5．4 Privacy and taboos
9．5．5 Rounding off numbers
9．5．6 Words and cultural-specific connotations
9．5．7 Cultural-related idioms， proverbs and metaphors
9．6 Culture contact， cultural overlap and diffusion
9．7 The significance of cultural teaching and learning
9．8 Intercultural communication
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Chapter 10 Language Acquisition
10．1 Introduction
10．2 Theories of child language acquisition
10．2．1 A behaviourist view of language acquisition
10．2．2 An innatist view of language acquisition
10．2．3 An interactionist view of language acquisition
10．3 Cognitive development in child language development
10．4 Language environment and the Critical Period Hypo thesis
10．5 Stages in child language development
10．5．1 Phonological development
10．5．2 Vocabulary development
10．5．3 Grammatical development
10．5．4 Pragmatic development
10．6 Atypical development
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Chapter 11 Second Language Acquisition
11．1 Introduction
11．2 Connections between first language acquisition and second language acquisition
11．3 Contrastive analysis
11．4 Error analysis
11．5 Interlanguage
11．6 The role of the native language in second language learning
11．7 Second language learning models and input hypothesis
11．8 Individual differences
11．9 Second language acquisition and its pedagogical implications
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Chapter 12 Language and the Brain
12．1 Introduction
12．2 Neurolinguistics
12．2．1 What is neurolinguistics?
12．2．2 The struce and function of the human brain
12．2．3 Methods for the study of the brain and evidences for lateralization
12．2．4 Aphasia
12．3 Psycholinguistics
12．3．1 What is psycholinguistics?
12．3．2 Psycholinguistic research methods
12．3．3 Linguistics and language processing
12．3．4 Psycholinguistic modeling
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A Glossary in English and Chinese
References

經過近一年的努力，《新編簡明英語語言學教程》（第二版）終於付梓，與讀者見面了。
《新編簡明英語語言學教程》（第二版）的前身是《簡明英語語言學教程》（1984年）。上海外國語大學是國內率先給本科生開設語言學課程並編寫出版語言學教材的學校之一。《簡明英語語言學教程》在繫統介紹語言學基礎理論知識的同時，考慮到了教學實踐的需求，在編寫中突出了“簡明、易懂、實用”的特點，兼之語言流暢、內容豐富，涵蓋了語言學的主要分支和理論，問世以後受到了廣大教師和學生的歡迎。該書累計印刷24次，出版近20萬冊。
在此基礎上，我們編寫了《新編簡明英語語言學教程》（2002年版）。《新編簡明英語語言學教程》秉承了《簡明英語語言學教程》的“簡明、易懂、實用”的特點，在介紹語言學各領域一些最新研究成果的同時，力求做到簡明扼要，方便使用。該書在出版後得到許多教師與學生的歡迎，並被列入“普通高等教育‘十五’和‘十一五’國家級規劃教材”和“新世紀高等院校英語專業本科生繫列教材”。自2002年發行以來，該書已累計印刷了34次，逾45萬冊。
彈指一揮間，幾年又過去了，而語言學在此期間發展迅速。一方面，語言學各分支向縱深發展；另一方面.語言學與眾多的學科建立起聯繫，向跨學科發展已成了語言學發展的一個潮流。隨著語言科學的發展，語言學的應用範圍越來越廣，語言學的重要性日益彰顯。在此期間，我們也曾收到了一些教師和讀者的來信，問詢一些內容，或指出個別文字上的不足，在此我們深表謝意，同時也深感再次修訂該書已迫在眉睫。
在修訂的過程中，我們依然堅持“簡明、易懂、實用”的特點。在內容上，我們主要注重語言學基礎理論知識的更新和充實，不求大而全。第二版的《新編簡明英語語言學教程》在第一章、第三章、第六章、第七章、第十章和第十二章都增加了新的內容，作了一些比較大的改動，個別章節如第三章的框架結構有較大調整，其他章節作了個別文字勘誤和改進。對練習作了一些更新和增補，其目的是希望學生能夠嘗試應用所學的理論知識對一些語言素材進行分析，在使學生對語言和語言學有更多感性認識的同時，培養他們獨立分析問題和解決問題的能力。此外，第二版教程增加了一個新的部分，即在每個章節的後面，有選擇地附上三、四個閱讀書目，有的是專著中的章節，有的是學術論文，希望在培養學生語言學學習興趣的同時，既為廣大的教師提供一些課外補充材料，也為一些愛鑽研的同學深入學習提供一定的方便。
自1984年以來，國內高等院校陸續為本科生開設了語言學課程，2000年教育部頒布的英語專業教學大綱則把語言學課程列入英語專業高年級的專業必修課，其重要性不言而喻。然而語言學是一門理論性強、與其他課相比較為抽像的課程。我們希望該書能一如既往地為眾多的同學提供簡單明了、內容時新的入門知識，培養學生的學習興趣，方便教師在教學中使用，能夠繼續為語言學教學作出一點綿薄的貢獻。
在《新編簡明英語語言學教程》（第二版）問世之際，我們衷心地希望廣大的教師與讀者一如既往地支持和使用這本書。由於我們學識有限，修訂過程中的一些不足之處，懇請廣大師生不吝賜教，指正批評。