文旭主编的《语言学导论》是为西南大学国家级精品课程“语言学导论”编写的配套教材，既可作为英语专业语言学课程的教材，也可作为报考语言学硕士的学生和语言学研究者的参考书。

本书不仅涵盖语言学的主要分支学科，如语音学、音系学、形态学、句法学、语义学，还介绍了语言学研究中的一些新兴的或重要的学科，如语用学、话语分析、文体学、心理语言学、认知语言学等。我们希望通过本书的学习，可以让学生对语言学的基本概念、整个蓝图以及语言学的发展史有一个大致的认识。

Chapter 1 Preliminaries

 1.1 Introduction

 1.2 Language

 1.3 Linguistics

 1.4 A brief history of linguistics

 1.5 Summary

Chapter 2 Phonetics and Phonology

 2.1 Introduction

 2.2 Phonetics

 2.3 Phonology

 2.4 Summary

Chapter 3 Morphology

 3.1 Introduction

 3.2 Morpheme

 3.3 Morph and allomorph

 3.4 Word formation

 3.5 Summary

Chapter 4 Syntax

 4.1 Introduction

 4.2 The domain of syntax

 4.3 Generative grammar

 4.4 Functional grammar

 4.5 Summary

Chapter 5 Semantics

 5.1 Introduction

 5.2 Word meaning

 5.3 Semantic relations between words

 5.4 Sentence meaning

 5.5 Semantic relations between sentences

 5.6 Mechanisms of semantic change

 5.7 Summary

Chapter 6 Pragmatics

 6.1 Introduction

 6.2 Deixis

 6.3 Presupposition

 6.4 Speech acts

 6.5 Conversational implicatures

 6.6 Conversation analysis

 6.7 Summary

Chapter 7 Discourse Analysis

 7.1 Discourse and discourse analysis

 7.2 Information structure

 7.3 Cohesion and coherence

 7.4 Discourse marker

 7.5 Muhimodal discourse analysis

 7.6 Critical discourse analysis

 7.7 Summary

Chapter 8 Sociolinguistics

 8.1 Introduction

 8.2 Language varieties

 8.3 Language and gender

 8.4 Choosing a code

 8.5 Language planning

 8.6 Methods for soeiolinguistie investigation

 8.7 Summary

Chapter 9 Stylistics

 9.1 Introduction

 9.2 Dimensions of variation

 9.3 Stylistic codification

 9.4 Linguistic approaches to stylistic analysis

 9.5 Practical stylistics

 9.6 Summary

Chapter 10 Psycholinguistics

 10.1 Introduction

 10.2 Language production

 10.3 Language comprehension

 10.4 Language acquisition

 10.5 Summary

Chapter 11 Cognitive Linguistics

 11.1 Introduction

 11.2 Categories and categorization

 11.3 Conceptual metaphors

 11.4 Conceptual metonymies

 11.5 Image schemas

 11.6 Construal

 11.7 Iconicity

 11.8 Summary

Chapter 12 Applied Linguistics

 12.1 Introduction

 12.2 Some basic concepts

 12.3 Second language acquisition

 12.4 Second language teaching

 12.5 Language testing

 12.6 Summary

Index

Answers to self-study activities