文档介绍：英语语言学概论课程课件
课件名称:语言学导论
制作人:外国语学院鞠玉梅
Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics
Purpose of teaching:Invite students to the field of linguistics
Focal points of teaching:Design features of language and the main branches of linguistics
我的教育理念:
Students are more like oysters rather than sausages. The job of teaching is not stuff and seal them up, but help open and find the riches within. There are pearls in everyone of us, if only we could cultivate them with ardor and persistence.
What is language?
1. a. human speech
b. the ability municate by human speech
c. a system of vocal sounds binations of sounds to which meaning is attributed, used for the expression munication of thoughts and feelings
d. the written representation of such a system
2. Language----a means of munication
Language is instrumental, social and conventional. Language learning and use are determined by the intervention of many factors. Language distinguishes us from animals.
许国璋:语言是人类特有的一种符号系统。当作用于人与人的关系的时候,它是表达相互反应的中介;当作用于人与客观世界的关系的时候,它是认知事物的工具;当作用于文化的时候,它是文化信息的载体。(《中国大百科全书•语言文字》)(可分离性、可组织性、理智性和可继承性)
Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics: Vehicle for the expression or exchanging of thoughts, concepts, knowledge, and information as well as the fixing and transmission of experience and knowledge. It is based on cognitive processes, subject to societal factors and subject to historical change and development. In this definition, language refers to a specific form of expression that is restricted to humans, and differs from all other possible languages, such as munication and artificial language through creativity, the ability to make conceptional abstractions, and the possibility of metalinguistic reflection. (p. 253)(工具性与载体性)
Language is fundamentally a means for munication. Through language anize our sensory experience and express our thoughts, feelings, and expectations. Language is particular interesting from cognitive informatics point of view because its specific and anization c