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1、LinguisticsWangYanpingUniversityofSouthChinaCourseobjectivesScheduleoftopicsCourserequirementsCourseobjectivesnatureoflanguagegenerallinguisticsanditsbranchesinfluentialtheoriesoflinguisticsmethodologyScheduleoftopicsperiodtopic1,2invitationtoLinguistics3,

2、5,6speechsounds7,8lexicon9,10syntax11,12,13meaning14,15,16languageinuse17revision&finalexaminationCourserequirements1.Completeallassignedreadingsbeforeeachclassmeeting(5%).2.PresenceandClassroomactivities:formgroupsanddiscussthequestionsandbringanswerstoclass(15

3、%).3.Assignment:finisheachexerciseontime(10%).4.Finalexamination(70%).BabelTower(astoryaboutlanguage)Functionsoflanguagerecognizedbyancientpeople:ToachievesomethingbygivingorderTopraisetheAlmightyTochallengetheheavenQuestion:Whatislanguage?Languageisuniquelyh

4、uman.(?)Language“isnottobeconfusedwithhumanspeech,ofwhichitisonlyadefinitepart,thoughcertainlyanessentialone.Itisbothasocialproductofthefacultyofspeechandacollectionofnecessaryconventionsthathavebeenadoptedbyasocialbodytopermitindividualstoexercisethatfaculty”.-

5、-FerdinanddeSaussure(1857-1913):CourseinGeneralLinguistics(1916)“Languageisapurelyhumanandnon-instinctivemethodofcommunicatingideas,emotionsanddesiresbymeansofvoluntarilyproducedsymbols.”--EdwardSapir(1884-1939):Language:AnIntroductiontotheStudyofSpeech(1921)“Al

6、anguageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsbymeansofwhichasocialgroupco-operates.”--BernardBloch(1907-1965)&GeorgeTrager(1906-1992):OutlineofLinguisticAnalysis(1942)“Alanguageisasystemofarbitraryvocalsymbolsbymeansofwhichthemembersofasocietyinteractintermsoftheirtot

7、alculture.”--GeorgeTrager:TheFieldofLinguistics(1949)“FromnowonIwillconsiderlanguagetobeaset(finiteorinfinite)ofsentences,eachfiniteinlengthandconstructedoutofafinitesetofelements.”--NoamChomsky(1928-):SyntacticStructures(1957)“Languageisameansofverbalcommunicat

8、ion.”Itisinstrumentalinthatcommunicatingbyspeakingorwritingisapurposefulact.Itissocialandconventionalinthatlanguageisasocialsemioticandcommunicationcanonlytakeplaceef