Newly Edited Basic Course in Linguistics

Author: Wei Huiliang, Xie Yuanhua
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: The book is divided into eighteen chapters, exploring the nature of language from aspects such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. It also elaborates on the origin and variation of language, its relationship with other disciplines such as thought, society, and culture, as well as theories of language acquisition and second language acquisition. Additionally, there is an appendix that briefly and systematically introduces a new method in linguistic research—corpus linguistics. The book explores the nature of language from aspects such as phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis, and elaborates on the relationship between the origin and variation of language, language and thought, society, culture, and other disciplines.