《语言学教程》（第三版）在修订版基础上听取广大师生的意见改编而成。包括语言学理论介绍，语音、词汇、句法、语义，语言和认知，语言和社会文化，语言和文学，语言和计算机，语言学和外语教学，语言学流流派等十二章。
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目录
Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics
1.1 Why Study Language？
1.2 What Is Language？
1.3 Design Features of Language
1.4 Origin of Language
1.5 Functions of Language
1.6 What Is Linguistics？
1.7 Main Branches of Linguistics
1.8 Macrolinguistics
1.9 Important Distinctions in Linguistics
Further Reading
Chapter 2 Speech Sounds
2.1 How Speech Sounds Are Made？
2.2 Consonants and Vowels
2.3 From Phonetics to Phonology
2.4 Phonological Processes，Phonological Rules and Distinctive Features
2.5 Suprasegmentals
Further Reading
Chapter 3 Lexicon
3.1 What Is Word？
3.2 The Formation of Word
Further Reading
Chapter 4 From Word to Text
4.1 Syntactic Relations
4.2 Grammatical Construction and Its Coonstituents
4.3 Syntactic Function
4.4 Category
4.5 Phrase Clause and Sentence
4.6 Recursiveness
4.7 Beyond the Sentence
Further Reading
Chapter 5 Meaning
5.1 Meanings of“MEANING”
5.2 The Referential Theory
5.3 Sense Relations
5.4 Componential Analysis
5.5 Sentence Meaning
Further Reading
Chapter 6 Language and Cognition
6.1 What Is Cognition？
6.2 What Is Psycholinguistics？
6.3 What Cognitive Linguistics？
Further Reading
Chapter 7 Language，Culture，and Society
Chapter 8 Language in Use
Chapter 9 Language and Literature
Chapter 10 Language and Computer
Chapter 11 Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching
Chapter 12 Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics
Questions and Exercises
Bibliography
Glossary and Index
前言
