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1、第一章 绪论 1/ What is linguistics? 什么是语言学？ Linguisticsis generally defined as the scientific study of language. It studies not any particular language, but languages in general. 2/ The scope of linguistics 语言学的研究范畴 The study of language as a whole is often calledgeneral linguistics. (普通语言学) The study of
2、 sounds, which are used in linguistic communication, is calledphonetics. （语音学） The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is calledphonology. （音系学） The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words are calledmorphology. （形态学） The study of how morphemes and wo
3、rds are combined to form sentences is calledsyntax. （句法学） The study of meaning in language is calledsemantics. （语义学） The study of meaning in context of use is calledpragmatics. （语用学） The study of language with reference to society is calledsocio-linguistics. （社会语言学） The study of language with refere
4、nce to the working of mind is called psycho-linguistics. （心理语言学） The study of applications (as the recovery of speech ability) is generally known asapplied linguistics. （应用语言学） But in a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teac
5、hing and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second language. Other related branches includeanthropological linguistics, （人类语言学）neurological linguistics, （神经语言学）mathematical linguistics, （数字语言学）andcomputational linguistics. （计算机语言学） 3/ Some important distinctions in linguistics 语言学研究中的几
6、对基本概念 Prescriptive and descriptive 描写与规定 If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to bedescriptive, if it aims to lay down rules to tell people what they should say and what they should not say, it is said to beprescriptive. Modern linguistics differs
7、 from traditional grammar. Traditional grammar is prescriptive while modern linguistics is descriptive. The task of linguists is supposed to describe the language people actually use, whether it is “correct” or not. Synchronic and diachronic 共时和历时 The description of a language at some point in time
8、is asynchronic study; the description of a language as it changes through time is adiachronic study. In modern linguistics, synchronic study is more important. Speech and writing 口头语与书面语 Speech and writing are the two major media of communication. Modern linguistics regards the spoken form of langua
9、ge as primary, but not the written form. Reasons: l 1. Speech precedes writing; l 2. There are still many languages that have only the spoken form; l 3. In terms of function, the spoken language is used for a wider range of purposes than the written, and carries a larger load of communication than t
10、he written.Langue and parole prul 语言和言语 The Swiss linguist F. de Saussure made the distinction between langue and parole early 20thcentury. Languerefers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, andparolerefers to the realization of langue in actual use. Saus
11、sure made the distinction in order to single out one aspect of language for serious study. He believes what linguists should do is to abstract langue from parole, to discover the regularities governing the actual use of language and make them the subjects of study of linguistics. 语言能力和语言运用 Competenc
12、e and performance Proposed by American linguist N. Chomsky in the late 1950s. He definescompetenceas the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language, andperformancethe actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. He believes the task of the linguists is to discover and sp
13、ecify the language rules. 4/ What is language? 语言的定义 Languageis a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. Sapir,Edward uses “ideas” “emotions” and “desires” in his definition. Hall, like Sapir, treats language as a purely human institution. Chomskys definition is quite differ
14、ent, it focus on the purely structural properties of languages and to suggest that these properties can be investigated from a mathematically precise point of view. 5/ Design features 语言的甄别性特征 Design features refer to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication. American linguist Charles Hockett specified twelve design features. 1) Arbitrariness 任意
