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- Introduction
- Nature of Language
- Origin of language
- Animal language
- Language is arbitrary
- Language change
- Structural Grammar
- Competence and performance
- Deep and surface structure
- Transformational-generative grammar
- Syntax
- Advantages and disadvantages of SG
- Functional Grammar
- Grammar and meaning
- Form and function
- Theme and Rheme
- Accuracy or acceptability
- Speech and Writing
- Speech and writing represent different codes
- Features of speech
- Features of writing
- A hybrid form: Netspeak
- Confusion of speech and writing in textbooks
- Pragmatics
- Semantic and pragmatic meaning
- Meaning and context
- The cooperative principle
- Politeness
- Speech acts
- Breaking of maxims in textbooks
- Discourse Analysis
- What is discourse?
- Coherence
- Cohesion
- Discourse analysis and language teaching
- Language Teaching and Learning
- Traditional approach
- Behaviorism
- Communicative approach
- Task-based approach
- World Englishes
- Varieties of English
- Equal Status of all varieties
- Computational Linguistics
- Computer and speech
- Computer and writing
- Computer assisted language learning
- Web-based language learning
- Corpus linguistics
