《英语语言学概论》教学指南总学时：21一、教学目的和要求语言学导论是英语专业本科生专业限定选修课程，属英语专业知识课程之一，为语言学方向首选必修课程，是选修其它语言学分支课程的先决条件本课程旨在通过系统地阐释语言和语言学领域中各个方面的基础理论，为学生今后的英语学习和理论研究奠定基础通过语言学课程的学习，要求学生达到：1）了解语言学领域中的一些基本概念和专有名词的内涵；2）了解语言学传统分支领域的基础理论知识；3）能基本了解各个语言学流派的观点和主张；4）激发学生学习语言学的兴趣，能运用所学理论解释一些基本语言现象二、教学内容、要点和学时安排第一章 绪论 （讲授3学时 研讨 1学时 自学 12学时）教学内容、要点 ：语言的定义、特征及功能；语言学的分类 教学方法：教学中采用教师为主导，学生为主题的教学模式; 采用启发式、讨论式的教学方法自学要求：预习第二章，自学语言学中的几对重要区分自学测试题：Ⅰ.Define the following terms design features arbitrariness duality displacement Ⅱ. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets.1.The feature that the details of the linguistic system must be learned anew by each speaker refers to ______ .A. displacement B. cultural transmission C. schooling D. education2.Language is used to establish and maintain people’s status in a society is referred to as ______ function.A.emotive B.performative C.interpersonal D.informative 3. The fact that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning is referred to as _____ of human language.A. Duality B. arbitrariness C. displacement D. cultural transmission4. The concept of competence is first put forward by ___ .A. Hymes B.Chomsky C. Halliday D. Saussure5. A linguistic study is ________ if it describes and analyses facts observed.A. prescriptive B. synchronic C. diachronic D. descriptiveⅢ.Questions for discussion1.Comment on the merits and weakness of descriptive grammar and prescriptive grammar. . 2. What kind of evident supports the idea that language is culturally transmitted ?3. Explain the primacy of speech over writing. 4. What distinguishes prescriptive studies of language from descriptive studies of language ?第二章 语音（讲授4学时 研讨 学时 自学 12学时）教学内容、要点：语音学的定义及分类；语音的分类及描述；音位学及其与语音学的关系；语音、音位和音位变体；音位理论；超切分音位特征。
教学方法：教学中采用教师为主导，学生为主题的教学模式; 采用启发式、讨论式的教学方法自学要求：预习第三章，自学音位过程和区别性特征自学测试题：Ⅰ.Define the following terms phoneme vowel consonant broad and narrow transcriptionⅡ. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets.1. The sounds in the production of which there is an obstruction of the air-stream at some point of the vocal tract are known as _______ .A. consonants B. places of articulationC. vowels D. manners of articulation2. [f] is a ________ .A. voiced bilabial stop B. voiceless bilabial fricativeC. voiceless labiodental fricative D. voiced labiodental fricative3.The soft palate is also called _____ . A. Velum B. uvula C.alveolus D.vocal cord4. ____ studies how speech sounds are produced, transmitted and perceived.A. Phonology B. Phonetics C. Morphonology D. Syntax5.The study of how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication is _____ .A. morphology B. general linguistics C. phonology D. semantics6. _______ is the smallest unit of sound in a language which can distinguish two words and the number of which varies from one langue to another.A. Phone B. phoneme C. allophone D. morpheme7. ______ is one of the suprasegmental features.A. Stop B.Voicing C. Deletion D.ToneⅢ.Questions for discussion1.In what ways do vowels differ from each other ? 2.Explain the difference between Chinese syllables and English syllables 3.Draw a diagram illustrating the Tongue positions of the eight primary cardinal vowels 4.Transcribe the following words into IPA symbols, with stress marking where necessary. Example: Face---/feis/Mall adjust fortune vaccinate wizard ….5.Intonation has four grammatical functions. State any two of them, giving examples where necessary. 6.Why should we say stress is very important in English pronunciation?7. Exemplify the relationship between phone, phoneme and allophone8. Name the single feature that distinguishes the following pairs of sounds. (1) [W] : [T] (2)[p] :[f] (3) [I] :[e]第三章 词汇 （讲授4学时 研讨 学时 自学10 学时）教学内容、要点：词的三种意义；词的识别；词素的概念及分类；词汇变化。
教学方法：教学中采用教师为主导，学生为主题的教学模式; 采用启发式、讨论式的教学方法自学要求：预习第四章，自学词汇变化自学测试题：Ⅰ.Define the following termsacronymy on pen class blending back-formation assimilationⅡ. Read each of the following statements carefully. Decide which one of the four choices best completes the statement and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets.1. Which of the following words does NOT contain a derivational morpheme ?A. listening B.constuction C.quickly D.happiness2. A(n) _______ is the base form of a word that cannot further be analyzed without total loss of identity.A. morpheme B. root 。