附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ch. 1. What Is Linguistics? -- Ch. 2. Morphology: The Study of the Structure of Words -- Ch. 3. Phonetics and Phonemic Transcription -- Ch. 4. Phonology: The Study of Sound Structure -- Ch. 5. Syntax: The Study of Sentence Structure -- Ch. 6. Semantics: The Study of Meaning and Denotation -- Ch. 7. Language Variation -- Ch. 8. Language Change -- Ch. 9. Pragmatics: The Study of Language Use and Communication -- Ch. 10. Psychology of Language: Speech Production and Comprehension -- Ch. 11. Language Acquisition in Children -- Ch. 12. Language and the Brain -- Appendix: The Written Representation of Language.
