Chapter 1 Introduction：Language and Linguistics
1.1 What Is Linguistics？
1.2 Is Linguistics a Science？
1.3 Branches of Linguistics
1.4 Linguistic Theories：Past and Present
Chapter 2 Brief History of Linguistics：An Overview
2.0 Introduction
2.1 Linguistics in Ancient Times
2.2 Linguistics in the Middle Ages
2.3 Linguistics in the Tenaissance
2.4 Linguistics in the 18th Century
2.5 Conclusion
Chapter 3 The 19th-century Historical and Comparative
3.0 Introduction
3.1 Early Efforts in Historical Linguistics
3.2 Rask，Grmm，and Verner
3.3 Hunboldt and Schleicher
3.4 Neogrammarians
3.5 Sanskrit and historical Linguistics
3.6 Conclusion
Chapter 4 The Beginning of Modern Linguistics
4.0 Introduction
4.1 Saussure the Man
4.2 Historical Background
4.3 The Making of the Course
4.4 Saussure and Comparative Linguistics
4.5 Saussure‘s Theoty of Language
4.6 Saussure’s Legacy：Semiology
4.7 Conclusion
Chapter 5 American Descriptive and Structuralist Linguistics
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Chapter 6 Chomsky and Transformational-Generative Grammar
Chapter 7 Early Functionalist Linguistics Theories
Chapter 8 Halliday and Systenic-Functional Grammar
Chapter 9 Linguistic Theories in the Latter Half of the 20th Century
Chapter 10 Modern Chinese Linguistics