Chapter 1Linguistics—A Pilot Science 
1.1Why Study Linguistics? 
1.2What Is Language?—Defining the Object of Study 
1.3Origin of Language
1.4Design Features of Language 
1.5Animal Communicati Systems, Gesture and 
Other Language Forms 
1.6Perspectives of Language Studies 
1.7Functis of Language 
1.8Important Distinctis in Linguistics 
1.9Data of Linguistics 
1.10Status and Prospect of Linguistics 
Chapter 2Phological Analysis 
2.1Transcribing Speech Sounds 
2.2Csants and Vowels 
2.3Phemic vs. Phoic Transcriptis 
2.4Distinctive Features and Rule Representati 
2.5Suprasegmentals and Feature Geometry 
2.6Optimality Theory 
2.7Cclusi 
Chapter 3Morphology 
3.1Morphemes, Morphs and Allomorphs 
3.2Classificati of Morphemes 
3.3Morphemizati 
3.4Allomorphy 
3.5Word, Wordform and Lexeme 
3.6Morphology and Wordformati 
3.7Approaches and Problems 
Chapter 4Generative Syntax 
4.1Generative Grammar: Some Basic Assumptis 
4.2Phrase Structure Rules 
4.3Projecti from Lexic 
4.4The Minimalist Approach 
Chapter 5Functial Syntax 
5.1Vilém Mathesius 
5.2Frantiek Dane 
5.3Michael Halliday 
5.4Summary 
Chapter 6Semantics 
6.1Introducti 
6.2Meanings of “Meaning” 
6.3The Referential Theory 
6.4Sense Relatis 
6.5Compential Analysis 
6.6Sentence Meaning 
Chapter 7Linguistic Comparis 
7.1Introducti 
7.2Comparative and Historical Linguistics 
7.3Typological Comparis 
7.4Ctrastive Linguistics 
Chapter 8Language, Culture, and Society 
8.1Introducti 
8.2Language and Culture 
8.3Language and Society 
8.4Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching 
8.5Summary 
Chapter 9Cognitive Linguistics 
9.1Introducti 
9.2Cognitive Abilities and Cognitive Processes 
9.3Cognitive Semantics 
9.4Cognitive Grammar 
Chapter 10Pragmatics 
10.1Introducti 
10.2Speech Act Theory 
10.3The Classical Theory of Implicature 
10.4PostGricean Theories 
10.5Recent Developments in Pragmatics 
Chapter 11Issues of Stylistics 
11.1Introducti 
11.2Style and Stylistics 
11.3Style as Rhetoric: The Initial Stage of Stylistics 
11.4One Style or Several Styles? 
11.5Aspects of Style: The Writerstyle as Writer’s 
Individual/Persal Singularities 
11.6Aspects of Style: The Textstyle as Linguistic 
Sameness (Structural Equivalence) 
11.7Aspects of Style: The Textstyle as Linguistic 
Difference (Deviati or Foregrounding) 
11.8Aspects of Style: The Readerstyle 
as Reader’s Respse 
11.9Aspects of Style: The Ctext: 
Style as Functi 
11.10Aspects of Style: The Meaning: 
Style as Meaning Potential 
11.11Ccluding Remarks: Linguistics, 
Literary Criticism, and Stylistics 
Chapter 12Computatial Linguistics 
12.1What is Computatial Linguistics? 
12.2Machine Translati 
12.3Corpus Linguistics 
12.4Informati Retrieval 
12.5Looking into the Future 
Chapter 13Secd Language Acquisiti 
13.1Introducti 
13.2The Role of Internal Mechanisms 
13.3The Role of Native Language 
13.4Input, Interacti and Output 
13.5Nlanguage Influences 
13.6Summary 
Chapter 14Modern Theories and Schools of Linguistics 
14.1The Beginning of Modern Linguistics 
14.2The Prague School and the Copenhagen School 
14.3The Ld School 
14.4Halliday and SystemicFunctial Grammar 
14.5American Structuralism 
14.6Chomsky and TransformatialGenerative Grammar 
14.7Revisiist/Rebellious Theories 
14.8Ccluding Remarks