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Comments on A New Concise Course on Linguistics For Students of English 　　【Abstract】As human beings, we can feel the existence of language everywhere. Although all of us are involved in language and more or less related to linguistics, linguistics is not familiar to many people. In this field, many books are published. A New Concise Course on Linguistics for students of English is one of these achievements. The comments on this book contain three parts: the introduction, comments based on characteristics and conclusion. 　　 　　1. Introduction 　　In the early years of 20th century, most linguistics books in China were translation versions. Since the last 20 years of 20th century, linguistics, as one of the main course, had been taught in China. Now, linguistics deserves more attention and becomes an imperative course for English majors. With 20 years’ development, linguistics books receive a flowering time in China. One of the achievements is A New Concise Course on Linguistics For Students of English written by Dai Weidong. 　　As an introduction text book of linguistics, this book covers the major branches of linguistics including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics―micro linguistics, also other branches appearing when language is related to its external world, such as sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics and psycholinguistics--macro linguistics. 　　This concise book is the wisdom collection of many scholars from famous universities of China. 　　2. Comments on Characteristics of the Book 　　1). Concise and innovation 　　This book uses concise and simple language. It leaves a good impression on the beginners. The foreign textbooks about linguistics are prone to stress on theories, use many different words and terms and refer to several kinds of languages in the examples. This kind of books lays big obstacles in front of students. However, this concise book avoids this problem. It is easy to understand and arouse the students’ interes