文档介绍：英语语言学概论
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Chapter 1
Language
语言
1.
Design feature
(辨别特色 ) refers to ss.
Displacement
Arbitrariness.
Cultural transmission
Duality of structure.
Interchangeability.
Why do we say language is a system?
Because elements of language are combined according to rules, and every language contains a set of rules. By system, the recurring patterns or arrangements or the particular ways or designs in which a language operates. And the sounds, the words and the sentences are used in fixed patterns that speaker of a language can understand each other.
4. ★ ( Function of language
.)
According to Halliday , what are
the initial functions of children ’s language? And what are the three
functional components of adult language?
I. Halliday uses the following terms to refer to the initial functions of
children s’language:
1)
Instrumental function.
工具功能
2)
Regulatory function.
调理功能
3)
Representational function.
表现功能
4)
Interactional function.
互动功能
5)
Personal function.
自指性功能
6)
Heuristic function.
启迪功能
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Imaginative function. 想象功能
II. Adult language has three functional components as following: 1) Interpersonal components. 人际
Ideational components. 观点
Textual components. 语篇
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Chapter 2
Linguistics
语言学
1.
general linguistics and descriptive linguistics
( 一般语言学与描绘语言学 ) The former deals with language in general whereas the latter is
concerned with one particular language.
2.
synchronic linguistics and diachronic linguistics
(共时语言学与历时语言学 ) Diachronic linguistics traces the historical development of the
language
and
records
the changes
that
have
taken place
in it between successive points
in time. And synchronic
linguistics presents
an
account of language as it is at some particular