新编语言学教程教案.ppt

Lecture I: Introduction to Linguistics By Ke Xianbing 2006年8月20日 Teaching Syllabus for General Linguistics: Section 1: Introduction: linguistics, language and major concepts in linguistics Section2: The sounds of language Phonetics: the study of Speech sounds Phonology: the study of sound systems and patterns Section3: Morphology: the study of word structure Section4: Syntax: the analysis of sentence structure Section5: Semantics: the analysis of abstract meaning Section 6: Pragmatics: the analysis of specific meaning in general context Teaching syllabus for Applied Linguistics:  Section 7: Discourse Analysis (the analysis of the information structure in general contest) Section 8: Socio-linguistics (Language and society) Section9: Psycho-linguistics (Language and mind ) Section 10: Cognitive Linguistics (Language and thought) Section 11: Language Acquisition (First and second language acquisition) Section 12: Applied Linguistics(Foreign language teaching and learning) 1.1 Linguistics: 1.1.1 Definition of Linguistics: What is it? Discussion: Linguistics is “ rich men’s game”? It is the game of everybody: We use language every day. We live in a world of words. Nobody can live in a world of silence. Hardly any moment passes without someone talking, writing, or reading. Language is most essential to mankind. However , linguistics is not very familiar to many people 1.1.1 Definition of Linguistics: What is it? Linguistics : the scientific or systematic study of language. The subject matter of linguistics is all natural languages, living or dead. Linguistics , a pilot science, tries to answer the basic questions: What is language? And How does language work? 1.1.1 Definition of Linguistics: What is it? Linguistics studies the origin, growth, organization, nature and development of language and discovers the general rules and principles governing language. It emplo