Chapter 1 语言学-Introduction.pptVIP

Teaching Focus 1. Why Study Language? 2. What is Language? 3. Design Features of Language 4. Origin of language 5. Functions of language 6. What is Linguistics? 7. Main branches of linguistics 8. Macrolinguistics 9. Important distinctions in linguistics 1. Why Study Language? Language is such an integral part of our life and humanity that too much about it has been taken for granted. The following list of myths and fundamental views about language will tell us how much we know about language. 1.1 Some myths about language Language is only a means of communication. Language has a form-meaning