Invitations to Linguistics 1.1 Introduction to Linguistics 1.2 Design Features of Language 1.3 Origins of Language 1.4 Functions of Language Phonetics 2.1 Phonetics Introduction 2.2 English Consonants 2.3 English Vowels Phonology 3.1 Phonology introduction 3.2 Coarticulation 3.3 Epenthesis and distinctive feature 3.4 Suprasegmentals 3.5 Syllable Morphology 4.1 Morphology introduction 4.2 Word formation Syntax 5.1 Concept of grammar 5.2 Syntactic relations 5.3 IC Analysis 5.4 Grammatical construction 5.5 TG grammar Semantics 6.1 Semantics: Introduction 6.2 Classification of meaning 6.3 Synonymy 6.4 Antonymy 6.5 Hyponymy 6.6 Homonymy 6.7 Polysemy 6.8 Componential analysis 6.9 Sentence meaning Pragmatics 7.1 Pragmatics: introduction 7.2 Speech Act Theory 7.3 Cooperative Principle 7.4 Conversational Implicature 7.5 Post-Gricean Development Psycholinguistics 8.1 Psycholinguistics: Introduction 8.2 Critical Period Hypothesis 8.3 Language Comprehension 8.4 Language Production 8.5 Cognitive Linguistics 8.6 Categorization and Image Schema 8.7 Metaphor Sociolinguistics 9.1 Varieties of Language 9.2 Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis 9.3 Cross-cultural Communication Second and Foreign Language Teaching 10.1 Introduction 10.2 Input Hypothesis and Interlanguage 10,3 Language Teaching 10.4 Syllabus Design 10.5 Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis 10.6 Corpus in Language Teaching Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics Theories and Schools of Modern Linguistics