语言c1,语言学课件C1-1.ppt

语言学课件C1-1

Chapter 1 Introduction to Linguistics LINGUISTICS. A COURSE BOOK (2nd Edition) 胡壮麟 Powerpoint Made by Yang Airong Why do I choose this book? We know that you must have an entrance examination about this subject if you want to be a graduate student for language learning. The Textbook written by Hu zhuanglin is very famous. The examination for English major has almost been and will almost be designed according to his book in many universities. So learning it well is very helpful both in your future work and your future study. Chapter 1 Introduction to Linguistics Main Points in Chapter 1 1. Definitions of Language 2. Design features 3. The Origin of language 4. Functions of Language 1.1 Why Study Linguistics? Try to answer the following questions: 1.Why do some people say “past” as in “bad” and other pronounce “past” as in “park”? 2. Why do you say “Good morning” to some people, and “Hi” to others? 3. What makes a text a text? 4. Is there a standard English? 5. Where do words in English come from? … We should study Linguistics. What use is linguistics for language learning? Talking, shouting, whispering, lying, swearing, telling jokes or tales, we must use language. With the help of linguistics, we can determine the authenticity of documents not only by features of handwriting, but also by the manner and frequency of grammatical features. We not only use language to do seemingly trivial things such as greeting, gossiping and shopping, we also use it to shape reality. And to critically examine reality, we need the toolkits offered by linguistics. 1.2 What is language? ????? What do you think ????? language ????? ???? is? What do we mean by the word "language"? Before discussing what language is, it may be useful for us to look into how we use the word "language". People use the word ? "language"? in many ways. That is, the word carries different meanings in different contexts. In order to prevent any confusion, we have to distinguish these se