語言學1

第一章
Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics

Teaching aims: let the students have the general idea about language and linguistics.

Teaching difficulties: design features of language ; some important distinctions in linguistics

Teaching procedures

1. language
1.1 Why study language?為什么學習語言
A tool for communication交流的工具
An integral part of our life and humanity 人類生活和人性中不可或缺的一部分.
If we are not fully aware of the nature and mechanism of our language, we will be ignorant of what constitutes our essential humanity.如果不能完全理解語言的本質和結構,我們就會對人類的本質一無所知.
1.2 What is language?什么是語言
1.2.1 different senses of language 語言的不同意義
1. what a person says( concrete act of speech)
a person’s consistent way of speaking or writing