The definition of language; design features, origin & functions of language; Chomsky’s ideas of language; the definition, and range of linguistics; its relationship with other disciplines; methods and importance of linguistic studies; definition of phonetics; vocal organs; classification of speech sounds; definition of phonology; distinctive sounds; complimentary distribution; distinctive features; minimal pairs; free variation;
Traditional grammar; structural linguistics; transformational-generative linguistics; functional linguistics; syllabus design; language learning; error analysis;
The Prague school; the London school; American structuralism; Transformational- Generative Grammar; Case Grammar and Generative Semantics;
4) Traditional syntax; structural syntax; immediate constituent analysis; functional syntax; generative syntax; c-command; structure dependency; government and binding; the minimalist program;
William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Henry Fielding, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence
2)美國作家:
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, Earnest Hemingway, Eugene O’Neil, Ralph Ellison