紹介
The fourth edition of General Linguistics provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to linguistics. The book considers: - semantics and pragmatics - dialect and style - phonetics and phonology - morphology and syntax, with reference both to traditional and current theories - comparative-historical linguistics and linguistic typology - linguistics' relation to other disciplines - the practical application of linguistics - the 2,500 years of linguistic thought that lies behind what we do and think today
目次
Part 1: General linguistics - the scope of the subject: linguistics as the study of language, and as a science
semantics Part 2: Theoretical and methodological considerations: abstractions
dialect, idiolect, style
the structural treatment of lexical meaning Part 3: Phonetics: articulatory phonetics
the organs of speech
segmentation - vowel and consonant
acoustic phonetics
plurisegmental features
phonetics in linguistics Part 4: Phonology: speech and writing
narrow and broad transcription
the phoneme theory
further developments Part 5: Grammar - grammatical elements: the sentence
the word
the morpheme
the semantic status of morphemes Part 6: Grammar - grammatical classes, structures and categories: syntactic relations
word classes
immediate constituents
grammatical categories
subclasses and irregularities
transformational-generative linguistics (TG), the theory of syntax, generalized phase structure grammar (GPSG), dependency grammars, post-"structuralist" theories, tagmemics, M.A.K.Halliday - systemic grammar, and stratificational linguistics Part 7: Linguistic comparison: historically orientated comparison of languages (comparative and historical linguistics)
typological comparison Part 8: Wider perspectives: linguistics and anthropology
- and sociology
- and philosophy
- and psychology
- and language teaching
- and communications engineering
- and literature
outline of the history of linguistic studies in Western Europe
