语言学概论教案

XXXXX学院语言学概论

教案（或讲义） （XX—XX年学年度第X学期）

教师姓名： XXXXXXXXX 授课班级： XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXX学院

二○一X年XX月

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Course Introduction

? Nature of the Course

? Compulsory: 2 credit scores

? Interesting and dull

? Useful: logical thinking training (theories are weapons)

The Requirements for this course

? The fields of study covered by linguistics

? Basic concepts

? Basic theories

? Class attendance

? Classroom discussion

? Fulfillment of the assignment

? Examination

Course evaluation

? General Policy

? Regular attendance

? Class participation

? Final exam

? *Note to Course Policy

Absence Penalty: 2-score penalty for each absence

Contribution Award: 2-5 scores for class contribution

The Goals for this Course

(why study language?)

? To get a scientific view on language;

? To understand some basic theories on linguistics;

? To understand the applications of the linguistic theories, especially in the fields of language teaching & learning (SLA or TEFL), cross-cultural communication…;

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? To prepare for the future research work.

Reference Books:

1. 戴炜栋，何兆熊，(2002)，《新编简明英语语言学教程》，上海外语教育出版社。

2. 胡壮麟，(2001)，《语言学教程》，北京大学出版社。

3. 刘润清，(1995)，《西方语言学流派》，外语教学与研究出版社。 Course Contents: an overview

chapter 6 Pragmatics

6.1 Some basic notions

6.1.1 Definition

6.1.2 Pragmatics vs.semantics

6.1.3 Context

6.1.4 Sentence meaning vs.utterance meaning

6.2 speech act theory

6.2.1 Austin's model of speech acts

6.2.2 Searle's classification of speech acts

6.2.3 Indirect speech acts

6.3 Principle of conversation

6.4 Cross-cultural pragmatic failure

Revision exercises

For further reading

chapter 7 Language Change

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Phonological changes

7.3 Morphological and syntactic change

7.3.1 Addition of affixes

7.3.2 Loss of affixes

7.3.3 Change of word order

7.3.4 Change in negation rule

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7.4 Lexical and semantic change

7.4.1 Addition of new words

7.4.2 Loss of words

7.4.3 Semantic changes

7.5 Some recent trends

7.5.1 Moving towards greater informality

7.5.2 The influence of american english

7.5.3 The influence of sci.ence and technology

7.6 The causes of language change

Revision exercises

For further reading

chapter 8 Language and Society

8.1 The scope of sociolinguistics

8.1.1 The relatedness between language and society

8.1.2 Speech community and speech variety

8.1.3 Two approaches to sociolinguistic studies

8.2 Varieties of language

8.2.1 Dialectal varieties

8.2.2 Register

8.2.3 Degree of formality

8.3 Standard dialect

8.4 Pidgin and creole

8.5 Bilingualism and diglossia

Revision exercises

For further reading

chapter 9 Language and Culture

9.1 Introduction

9.2 What is culture?

9.3 The relationship between language and culture

9.4 Sapir-whorf hypothesis

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