Language and Linguistics: A Practical Handbook

Author: Gu Rui Guo
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Publishing Date: 2003-06-30
Features: This tutorial is a series of advanced English self-study materials developed through a 7-year collaboration between the School of Applied English at Beijing Foreign Studies University and the British Council. It was launched after a 3-year trial period. The "Advanced English Self-Study Series" is specifically designed for English enthusiasts with intermediate English proficiency, making it particularly suitable for readers who have studied English for two years or have obtained the College English Test Band 4 certificate. This tutorial takes language, culture, and context as its main threads, integrating the five skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. Through various learning tasks, it enables learners to acquire practical English communication skills. The tutorial is designed for self-study, with feedback and reference answers provided for each learning task. The three accompanying "Success Guides" are specifically designed to help learners improve their personal qualities, such as self-directed learning abilities, good study habits, and skills.
Contents:
Unit 1 Awareness of Our Language
Part 1 What is Language?
Unit 2 Physical Aspects of Language
Unit 3 The Symbolic Nature of Language
Part 2 What Are the Functions Language Fulfills in the Social World?
Unit 4 Language Function 1: Organizing Our Experiences of the Material World
Unit 5 Language Function 2: Doing Things with Language
Unit 6 Language Function 3: Managing Interpersonal Relations
Unit 7 Language Function 4: Talk, Talk and Talk
Unit 8 Language in Society
Part 3 What Are the Functions Language Fulfills in the Human Mind?
Unit 9 Language, Brain and Mind
Unit 10 General Review and Course Assessment
Glossary