Lecture1-IntroductionLanguageandLinguistics要点.ppt

7、叶蜚声，徐通锵，1997， 《语言学纲要》，北京大学出版社。 8、王德春，1997， 《语言学概论》上海外语教育出版社。 9、F. de Saussure ,1916, Course of General Linguistics,外语教学与研究出版社，2001 《普通语言学教程》：高名凯译：1983，2005， 商务印书馆 裴文译：2001，江苏教育出版社。 10、Widdowson, H. G. 1996, Linguistics (Oxford Series). 2000, 上海外语教育出版社。 Why does language provide such a fascinating object of study? Perhaps because of its unique role in capturing the breadth of human thought and endeavor. We look around us, and are awed by the variety of several thousand languages and dialects, expressing a multiplicity of world views, literatures, and ways of life. We predecessors, and find we can see only as far as language lets us see. We look forward in time, and find we can plan only through language. We look outward in space, and send symbols of communication along with our spacecraft, to explain who we are, in case there is anyone there who wants to know. Jakobson’s (1960) view of the functions of language: (Hu Zhuanglin, 2001:11) Functions of language (Yang Xinzhang, 2005:14~20) General functions: Physiological function: language can help get rid of nervous or physical energy. It can also be called as the emotive or expressive function of language. Phatic function Recording function: Language allows us to record things we wish to remember, either short-term record or long-term record. Identifying function: allows us to identify, with considerable precision, an enormous array of objects and events. Here language helps to make sense of the world around us. Experiential function and Logical function. Interpersonal function: functions concerned with the relationship between the speaker and other people or things. The interpersonal component represents the speaker’s meaning potential as an intruder. It is the participatory function of language. It is through language that the speaker intrudes himself or herself into the context of situation. Textual fun