Chapter 1 Language and Linguistics
　1.1 The Nature of Language
　　1.1.1 Language Is Systematic
　　1.1.2 Language Is Symbolic
　　1.1.3 Language Is Arbitrary
　　1.1.4 Language Is Primarily Vocal
　　1.1.5 Language Is Human Specific
　　1.1.6 Language Is Used for Communication
　1.2 The Functions of Language
　　1.2.1 General Functions of Language
　　1.2.2 Metafunctions of Language
　1.3 The Origin and Classification of Language
　　1.3.1 The Origin of Language
　　1.3.2 Language Families
　1.4 What Is Linguistics?
　　1.4.1 Definition of Linguistics
　　1.4.2 Some Important Distinctions in Linguistics
　1.5 The Scope of Linguistics
　　1.5.1 Use of Linguistics
　　1.5.2 Recent Developments
Chapter 2 Phonetics and Phonology
　2.1 Production of Sounds
　　2.1.1 Scope of Phonetics
　　2.1.2 Articulation of Sounds
　　2.1.3 Characteristics of English Speech Sounds
　　2.1.4 The Transcription of Sounds
　2.2 Phonemes
　　2.2.1 Definition of Phonemes
　　2.2.2 Minimal Pairs
　　2.2.3 Distinctive Features
2.3 Sound Patterns
　　2.3.1 Sequential Constraints
　　2.3.2 Complementary Distribution
2.4 Suprasegmental Features
　　2.4.1 Syllable
　　2.4.2 Stress
　　2.4.3 Pitch
　　2.4.4 Intonation and Tone
Chapter 3 Morphology and Lexicon
3.1 Word and Word Classes
　 3.1.1 Word
　　3.1.2 Word Classes
3.2 Morpheme
　　3.2.1 What Is a Morpheme?
　　3.2.2 Types of Morphemes
3.3 Inflection and Word-formation
　　3.3.1 Inflection
　　3.3.2 Word-formation
3.4 Lexicon
　　3.4.1 Lexeme
　　3.4.2 Features of Lexicon
Chapter 4 Syntax
4.1 Sentence Structure
　　4.1.1 Constituents
　　4.1.2 Sentence Types
4.2 Syntactic Function and Category
　　4.2.1 Syntactic Function
　　4.2.2 Category
4.3 Transformational kules
　　4.3.1 Deep Structure and Surface Structure
　　4.3.2 Sentence Transformations
Chapter 5 Semantics
Chapter 6 Pragmatics and Text Analysis
Chapter 7 Language and Sicial Culture
Chapter 8 Language Acquisition and Thought
Chapter 9 Linguistics and Language Teaching
Further Readings
References
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