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1、 3. For further understanding, we need to study language scientifically.1.2 What is language?1.3 Design features of language The features that define our human languages can be called design features which can distinguish human language from any animal system of communication. 1.3.1 Arbitrariness 1.

2、3.2 Duality 1.3.3 CreativityCreativity means that language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. Recursiveness refers to the rule which can be applied repeatedly without any definite limit. The recursive nature of language provides a theoretical basis for the possibility of cr

3、eating endless sentences. 1.3.4 Displacement1.4 Origin of language 1. The bow-wow theoryIn primitive times people imitated the sounds of the animal calls in the wild environment they lived and speech developed from that. 2. The pooh-pooh theoryIn the hard life of our primitive ancestors, they utter

4、instinctive sounds of pains, anger and joy which gradually developed into language. 3. The “yo-he-ho” theoryAs primitive people worked together, they produced some rhythmic grunts which gradually developed into chants and then into language.1.5 Functions of language As is proposed by Jacobson, langu

5、age has six functions: 1. Referential: to convey message and information; 2. Poetic: to indulge in language for its own sake; 3. Emotive: to express attitudes, feelings and emotions; 4. Conative: to persuade and influence others through commands and entreaties; 5. Phatic: to establish communion with

6、 others; 6. Metalingual: to clear up intentions, words and meanings.What is contextualism?“Contextualism” is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from, or reduce it to, observable context: the “situational context” and the “linguistic context”. Every utterance occurs in a particular

7、spatial-temporal situation, as the following factors are related to the situational context: （1） the speaker and the hearer; （2） the actions they are performing at the time; （3） various external objects and events; （4） deictic features. The “linguistic context” is another aspect of contextualism. It

8、 considers the probability of one words co-occurrence or collocation with another, which forms part of the meaning, and an important factor in communication. Halliday （1994） proposes a theory of metafunctions of language. It means that language has three metafunctions:According to Hu Zhuanglin, lang

9、uage has at least seven functions:1.5.1 Informative 1.5.2 Interpersonal function The interpersonal function means people can use language to establish and maintain their status in a society.1.5.3 Performative The performative function of language is primarily to change the social status of persons,

10、as in marriage ceremonies, the sentencing of criminals, the blessing of children, the naming of a ship at a launching ceremony, and the cursing of enemies.1.5.4 Emotive function 1.5.5 Phatic communionThe phatic communion means people always use some small, seemingly meaningless expressions such as G

11、ood morning, God bless you, Nice day, etc., to maintain a comfortable relationship between people without any factual content.1.5.6 Recreational functionThe recreational function means people use language for the sheer joy of using it, such as a babys babbling or a chanters chanting.1.5.7 Metalingua

12、l function The metalingual function means people can use language to talk about itself. E.g. I can use the word “book” to talk about a book, and I can also use the expression “the word book” to talk about the sign “b-o-o-k” itself.1.6 What is linguistics? Linguistics is the scientific study of langu

13、age. It studies not just one language of any one community, but the language of all human beings.1.7 Main branches of linguistics 1.7.1 PhoneticsPhonetics is the study of speech sounds, it includes three main areas: articulatory phonetics, acoustic phonetics, and auditory phonetics. 1.7.2 PhonologyP

14、honology studies the rules governing the structure, distribution, and sequencing of speech sounds and the shape of syllables. 1.7.3 MorphologyMorphology studies the minimal units of meaning morphemes and word-formation processes. 1.7.4 SyntaxSyntax refers to the rules governing the way words are com

15、bined to form sentences in a language, or simply, the study of the formation of sentences. 1.7.5 Semantics Semantics examines how meaning is encoded in a language. 1.7.6 Pragmatics Pragmatics is the study of meaning in context.1.8 Macrolinguistics Macrolinguistics is the study of language in all aspects, distinct from microlinguistics, which dealt solely with the formal aspect of language system. 1.8.1 Psycholinguistics