《普通高等教育十一五国家级规划教材·新编语言学导论》分为三部分。第一部分语言体系（Languagesystem），第二部分语言运用（Languageuse），第三部分语言学习（Languagelearning）。全书用英文撰写，行文流畅。简明易懂，概念明确，例证丰富。每个章节后面附有总结（Summary）、学习建议（Suggestionsforstudy）、练习（Questionsandexercises）与小型研究课题（Mini—researchproject），便于教师组织教学，也方便读者自学。

本书可作为英语专业本科学生的教材，也可作为硕士研究生的辅助读本。

前辅文
Introduction
  1 Linguistics and English linguistics
  2 Structure of the book
Part I Language System
Overview
  Chapter One What Is Language?
   1.1 The nature of language
   1.2 Distinctions between important concept pairs in linguistic study
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Two Phonetics
   2.1 Speech organs
   2.2 Consonants and vowels
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Three Phonology
   3.1 Important concepts in phonology
   3.2 Identifying phonemes
   3.3 Sequences of phonemes
   3.4 Co-articulation effects
   3.5 Supra-segmental features
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Four Morphology
   4.1 What is morphology?
   4.2 Morphemes
   4.3 Classifications of morphemes
   4.4 Morphemes, morphs and allomorphs
   4.5 Empty morph and zero morph
   4.6 Morphemic analysis
   4.7 The role of morphology in English
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Five Syntax
   5.1 Structural description of sentences
   5.2 Generation of sentences
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Six Semantics
   6.1 What is meaning?
   6.2 Lexical semantics
   6.3 Sentence semantics
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
Part II Language Use
Overview
  Chapter Seven General Principles of Communication
   7.1 The Cooperative Principle
   7.2 The Politeness Principle
   7.3 The Principle of Relevance
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Eight Intercultural Communication
   8.1 Important concepts
   8.2 Language and culture
   8.3 Diverse intercultural communication patterns
   8.4 Potential problems in intercultural communication
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Nine Language Variety
   9.1 Language—dialect—regional dialect—social dialect
   9.2 Lingua franca—pidgin—creole
   9.3 Style—genre—taboo—euphemism
   9.4 Gender and language use
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
Part III Language Learning
Overview
  Chapter Ten Major Issues in SLA
   10.1 Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis
   10.2 Error Analysis
   10.3 The Interlanguage Hypothesis
   10.4 The Monitor Model
   10.5 The Output Hypothesis
   10.6 The Open-Choice Principle and the Idiom Principle
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Eleven Factors Affecting Second Language Learning
   11.1 Factors not easily modified by learners
   11.2 Factors easily modified by learners
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  Chapter Twelve Developing an Intercultural Communicative Competence
   12.1 A brief review of current models of second language competence
   12.2 Why are current models inadequate?
   12.3 A model of intercultural communicative competence
   12.4 Intercultural competence in communicative language use
   Summary
   Suggestions for study
   Questions and exercises
   Mini-research project
  References

“十一五”国家规划教材