Chapter 1 Preliminaries
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Language
1.3 Linguistics
1.4 A brief history of linguistics
1.5 Summary

Chapter 2 Phonetics and Phonology
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Phonetics
2.3 Phonology
2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Morphology
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Morpheme
3.3 Morph and allomorph
3.4 Word formation
3.5 Summary

Chapter 4 Syntax
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The domain of syntax
4.3 Generative grammar
4.4 Functional grammar
4.5 Summary

Chapter 5 Semantics
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Word meaning
5.3 Semantic relations between words
5.4 Sentence meaning
5.5 Semantic relations between sentences
5.6 Mechanisms of semantic change
5.7 Summary

Chapter 6 Pragmatics
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Deixis
6.3 Presupposition
6.4 Speech acts
6.5 Conversational implicatures
6.6 Conversation analysis
6.7 Summary

Chapter 7 Discourse Analysis
7.1 Discourse and discourse analysis
7.2 Information structure
7.3 Cohesion and coherence
7.4 Discourse marker
7.5 Muhimodal discourse analysis
7.6 Critical discourse analysis
7.7 Summary

Chapter 8 Sociolinguistics
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Language varieties
8.3 Language and gender
8.4 Choosing a code
8.5 Language planning
8.6 Methods for soeiolinguistie investigation
8.7 Summary

Chapter 9 Stylistics
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Dimensions of variation
9.3 Stylistic codification
9.4 Linguistic approaches to stylistic analysis
9.5 Practical stylistics
9.6 Summary

Chapter 10 Psycholinguistics
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Language production
10.3 Language comprehension
10.4 Language acquisition
10.5 Summary

Chapter 11 Cognitive Linguistics
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Categories and categorization
11.3 Conceptual metaphors
11.4 Conceptual metonymies
11.5 Image schemas
11.6 Construal
11.7 Iconicity
11.8 Summary

Chapter 12 Applied Linguistics
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Some basic concepts
12.3 Second language acquisition
12.4 Second language teaching
12.5 Language testing
12.6 Summary
Index
Answers to self-study activities