Introduction to Linguistics (Revised Edition)

Author: Wang Dechun
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Introduction to Linguistics is divided into three parts: "Language and Linguistics," "Theoretical Linguistic Analysis," and "Applied Linguistic Analysis," comprising a total of 15 chapters. The content covers the main fields of modern linguistics. It particularly discusses well-researched and insightful topics, such as: the relationship between language and speech, the relationship between language and symbols, the laws of language development, macro linguistics and micro linguistics, the nature of words and phrases, the characteristics of traditional and modern grammar, phonemes, phonetic qualities, and phonemes, semantic feature analysis and logical calculus of semantics, speech context and speech regularities, speech refinement, the features and types of writing systems, the social dictionary system and dictionary types, semantic analysis and part-of-speech division, the essence of translation and translation units, the relationship between language and speech in foreign language teaching, and the cultivation of foreign language proficiency. Some of these arguments are still considered innovative to this day.