As informative function of language is its primary function and aprerequisite of social development, the meaning of language is a focus inlinguistic studies. From a systematic point of view, language is of differentlevels, with corresponding linguistic br...[继续阅读]

    Systemic-Functional grammar has two components: Systemicgrammar and Functional grammar. The systemic part means languageelements form into systems. The use of language involves a network ofsystems of meaning potentials. The items in a system are in a choi...[继续阅读]

    Language is human specific. To summarize the design features oflanguage which distinguish it from any other communication means can helpus better understand the nature of human language. American structurallinguist C. F. Hockett (1958) proposed 16 key fea...[继续阅读]

    American Structuralism is a branch of synchronic linguistics thatemerged in the United States in the early 20th century, with representativefigures - F. Boas (1858-1942), E. Sapir (1884-1939), B. L. Whorf (1897-1941), and Bloomfield (1887-1949). The pione...[继续阅读]

    Traditional grammar refers to the type of grammar study doneprior to the beginnings of modern linguistics. Traditional grammar ofEnglish focused on the study of the structure and formation of wordsand sentences, usually without much reference to sound and...[继续阅读]

    Cardinal vowels, as exhibited by the vowel diagram in the IPA chart,are a set of vowel qualities arbitrarily defined, fixed and unchanging,intended to provide a frame of reference for describing the actual vowels ofexisting languages. The current "cardina...[继续阅读]

    Linguistics is usually defined as the science of language or,alternatively, as the scientific study of language (Lyons, 1981: 37).Linguistics builds on the past, not only by challenging and refutingtraditional doctrines but also by developing and reformul...[继续阅读]

    Backformation is a process of word formation by the deletion of animagined affix from a longer form already in the language, for example,edit (editor), babysit (babysitter), air-condition (air-conditioner), burgle(burglar), peddle (peddler), hawk (hawker)...[继续阅读]

    The same as sense relations between words, there exist senserelations between sentences. The main types of sense relations betweensentences are synonymy, inconsistency, entailment, presupposition andimplicature.5.5.3.1 SynonymySentences may be synonymous ...[继续阅读]

    Functional linguists, represented by London School, sees themeaning of language from its use in specific contexts. Context is generallyconsidered as constituted by the knowledge shared by the speaker andhearer. Various components of shared knowledge have ...[继续阅读]