精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上Chapter 1 Introduction1. What is linguistics?Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.2. The scope of linguistics:(1 ). phonetics 语音学 ；phonology 音位学；morphology 形态学；syntax 句法学；pragmatics 语用学(2). sociolinguistics 社会语言学；psycholinguistics 心理语言学；applied linguistics应用语言学3. Some important distinction in linguistics(1) Descriptive vs. prescriptive 描述性与规定性 If a linguistics study aims to describe and analyze the language people actually
