●Preface
Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
導讀
1 What Is language
1.1 The Sinmificance of Language
1.2 What Is Language
1.3 The Functions of language
1.4 What Is a language
1.5 The Elements of language
Summary
Exercises
2 Lexis
2.1 What Is a Word
2.2 Where Do Words Come From
Summary
Exercises
3 Sexia
3.1 The Function of lexemes
3.2 The meaning of meaning
3.3 Semantic Range
3.4 The Definition of Semantic Range
3.5 Collocation and Idiom
3.6 Homonyny and Idiom
3.7 The Human Element of Meaning
3.8 Pragmatics
3.9 Pragmatics
Summary
Exercises
4 Phonetics
4.1 The Organs of Speech
4.2 Comsonants
4.3 Phonemic Notation
4.4 Vowels
4.5 Sounds in Sequence
Summary
Exercises
5 Phonology
5.1 Sound Sydtens of Lanuages
5.2 The Phoneme
5.3 Phoniological Rules
5.4 The Phonology of English
5.5 The Phonoloty of Other languages
5.6 Supraesgmental Features
Summary
Exercises
6 Morphology
6.1 The Composition of Words
6.2 Morphemes
6.3 Derivation and Inflection
6.4 Productivity and Word Formation
6.5 Problems of Morphological Analysis
Summary
Exercises
7 Syntax
7.1 Syntax as Opposed to Morphology
7.2 Word Classes
7.3 Constituent Structure
7.4 Noam Chomsky
7.5 Syntactic Forms
Summary
Exercises
8 Regional Variation
8.1 Variations of Variations
8.2 Horizontal Definition of Dialect
8.3 Vertical Definition of Dialect
8.4 The Nature of Variation
Summary
Exercises
9 Social Variation
9.1 The Social Dimension
9.2 111e Standard Language
9.3 The Urban Vanguard
9.4 Men and Women
9.5 Power and Solidarity
9.6 Registers and Diglossia
9.7 Taboo and Political Correctness
9.8 Slang
Summary
Exercises
10 Historical Linguistics
10.1 111e Diachronic Dimension
10.2 How Language Changes
10.3 Why Language Changes
10.4 When Language Changes
10.5 Divergence
10.6 Convergence
10.7 Pidgins and Creoles
Summary
Exercises
11 The Languages of Western Europe
11.1 The Indo-European Family of Languages
11.2 The Germanic Languages
11.3 The Romance Languages
11.4 The Celtic Languages
11.5 Finnish
Summary
Texts
Exercises
12 Writing Systems
12.1 Communication across Time and Space
12.2 Morphemic and Phonetic Script
12.3 Chinese Script-A Morphemic System
12.4 Roman Script-An Alphabetic System
12.5 Allographs
Summary
Exercises
Glossary
Guide to Exercises
Bibliography
Indes
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