Introduction to Linguistics

Table of Content

 * /Introduction/


 * 1) /Nature of Language/
 * 2) * Origin of language
 * 3) * Animal language
 * 4) * Language is arbitrary
 * 5) * Language change
 * 6) /Structural Grammar/
 * 7) * Competence and performance
 * 8) * Deep and surface structure
 * 9) * Transformational-generative grammar
 * 10) * Syntax
 * 11) * Advantages and disadvantages of SG
 * 12) /Functional Grammar/
 * 13) * Grammar and meaning
 * 14) * Form and function
 * 15) * Theme and Rheme
 * 16) * Accuracy or acceptability
 * 17) /Speech and Writing/
 * 18) * Speech and writing represent different codes
 * 19) * Features of speech
 * 20) * Features of writing
 * 21) * A hybrid form: Netspeak
 * 22) * Confusion of speech and writing in textbooks
 * 23) /Pragmatics/
 * 24) * Semantic and pragmatic meaning
 * 25) * Meaning and context
 * 26) * The cooperative principle
 * 27) * Politeness
 * 28) * Speech acts
 * 29) * Breaking of maxims in textbooks
 * 30) /Discourse Analysis/
 * 31) * What is discourse?
 * 32) * Coherence
 * 33) * Cohesion
 * 34) * Discourse analysis and language teaching
 * 35) /Language Teaching and Learning/
 * 36) * Traditional approach
 * 37) * Behaviorism
 * 38) * Communicative approach
 * 39) * Task-based approach
 * 40) /World Englishes/
 * 41) * Varieties of English
 * 42) * Equal Status of all varieties
 * 43) /Computational Linguistics/
 * 44) * Computer and speech
 * 45) * Computer and writing
 * 46) * Computer assisted language learning
 * 47) * Web-based language learning
 * 48) * Corpus linguistics