《新世纪高等院校英语专业本科生教材（修订版）：新编简明英语语言学教程（第2版）》特色：
权威性和先进性的体现：
按照《高等学校英语专业英语教学大纲》提出的培养目标、课程设置、教学要求和教学原则精心设计，凝聚海内外英语专业教育界专家学者的智慧，反映英语专业教育、科研的最新成果。
前瞻性和创新性的结晶
基于广泛的市场调研、详尽的需求分析和严谨的科学判断，梳理现有教程，优化教材结构，更新教学方法和手段，强化学生综合能力的培养。
专业素质和人文素养的同步提升
专业技能、专业知识、相关专业知识的完美匹配，帮助学生打下扎实的语言基本功，增强其分析问题、解决问题的能力，提高专业素质和人文素养，使学生真正成为国际化、创新型、高素质的英语专业人才。
Chapter1Introduction
1.1WhatIsLinguistics?
1.1.1Definition
1.1.2TheScopeOfLinguistics
1.1.3SomeImportantDistinctionsInLinguistics
1.2WhatIsLanguage?
1.2.1DefinitionsOfLanguage
1.2.2DesignFeaturesOfLanguage
1.2.3FunctionsOfLanguage
RevisionExercises
ForFurtherReading
Chapter2Phonology
2.1ThePhonicMediumOfLanguage
2.2Phonetics
2.2.1WhatIsPhonetics?
2.2.2OrgansOfSpeech
2.2.3OrthographicRepresentationOfSpeechSoundsBroadAndNarrowTranscriptions
2.2.4ClassificationOfEnglishSpeechSounds
2.3Phonology
2.3.1PhonologyAndPhonetics
2.3.2Phone,Phoneme,AndAllophone
2.3.3PhonemicContrast,ComplementaryDistribution,AndMinimalPair
2.3.4SomeRulesInPhonology
2.3.5SuprasegmentalFeatures——Stress,Tone,Intonation
RevisionExercises
ForFurtherReading
Chapter3Morphology
3.1Introduction
3.2OpenClassAndClosedClass
3.3Morphemes——TheMinimalUnitsOfMeaning
3.4AnalyzingWordStructures
3.5Derivationa!AndinflectionalMorphemes
3.6MorphologicalRulesOfWordFormation
3.7Derivation
3.8Compounds
RevisionExercises
ForFurtherReading
Chapter4Syntax
4.1WhatIsSyfitax?
4.2Categories
4.2.1Word-LevelCategories
4.2.2PhraseCategoriesAndTheirStructures
4.3PhraseStructureRule
4.3.1Xprule
4.3.2CoordinationRule
4.4PhraseElements
4.4.1Specifiers
4.4.2Complements
4.4.3Modifiers
4.5Sentences(TheSRule)
4.6Transformations
4.6.1AuxiliaryMovement
4.6.2DoInsertion
4.6.3DeepStructureAndSurfaceStructure
4.6.4WhMovement
4.6.5MoveAAndConstraintsOnTransformations
RevisionExercises
ForFurtherReading
Chapter5Semantics
5.1WhatIsSemantics?
5.2SomeViewsConcerningTheStudyOfMeaning
5.2.1TheNamingTheory
5.2.2TheConceptualistView
5.2.3Contextualism
5.2.4Behaviorism
5.3LexicalMeaning
5.3.1SenseandReference
5.3.2MajorSenseRelations
5.4SenseRelationsBetweenSentences
5.5AnalysisOfMeaning
5.5.1ComponentialAnalysis——AWayToAnalyzeLexicalMeaning
5.5.2PredicationAnalysis——AWayToAnalyzeSentenceMeaning
RevisionExercises
ForFurtherReading
Chapter6Pragmatics
6.1Som'eBasicNotions
6.1.1Definition
6.1.2PragmaticsVs.Semantics
6.1.3Context
6.1.4SentenceMeaningVs.UtteranceMeaning
6.2SpeechActTheory
6.2.1Austin'sModelOfSpeechActs
6.2.2Searle'sClassificationOfSpeechActs
6.2.3IndirectSpeechActs
6.3PrincipleOfConversation
6.4Cross-CulturalPragmaticFailure
RevisionExercises
ForFurtherReading
Chapter7LanguageChange
7.1Introduction
7.2PhonologicalChanges
7.3MorphologicalAndSyntacticChange
7.3.1AdclitionOfAffixes
7.3.2LossOfAffixes
7.3.3ChangeOfWordOrder
7.3.4ChangeInNegationRule
7.4Lexical'andSemanticChange
7.4.1AdditionOfNewWords
7.4.2LossOfWords
7.4.3SemanticChanges
7.5SomeRecentTrends
7.5.1MovingTowardsGreaterInformality
7.5.2TheInfluenceOfAmericanEnglish
7.5.3TheInfluenceOfSci.EnceAndTechnology
7.6TheCausesOfLanguageChange
RevisionExercises
ForFurtherReading
Chapter8LanguageAndSociety
8.1TheScopeOfSociolinguistics
