●Contents
●Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics
●Chapter 2 Phonetics: The Study of Speech Sounds
●Chapter 3 Phonology: The Study of Sound Systems and Patterns.
●Chapter 4 Morphology: The Study of Word Structure.
●Chapter 5 Syntax: The Analysis of Sentence Structure
●Chapter 6 Semantics: The Analysis of Meaning
●Chapter 7 Pragmatics: The Analysis of Meaning in Context.
●Chapter 8 Text Analysis: Exploring Principles of Text Construction
●Chapter 9 Language and Society
●Chapter 10 Language and Culture .
●Chapter 11 Second Language Acquisition
●Chapter 12 Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching
●References
●Key to Exercises.
●An English-Chinese Glossary
●Appendix Ⅰ The Indo-European Language Family
●Appendix Ⅱ Families/Groups of Languages.
●Appendix Ⅲ 語言學學習方法舉要.