tailieunhanh - Lecture Introduction to linguistics: Historical linguistics - M.A.K. Halliday

In this chapter, students will be able to understand: History of linguistics, prelude, structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure, generative linguistics: Chomsky, functionalism, . halliday. | Historical Linguistics (3) . Halliday Dr. Ansa Hameed Previously . History of Linguistics Prelude Structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure Generative Linguistics: Chomsky Today’s Lecture Functionalism . Halliday Functionalism as New Paradigm FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS vs. STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS Functional linguistics focuses on language with perspectives different from structuralism. Language Structure Function Structuralism Functionalism Functionalism vs. Structuralism STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS Language is a linguistic system made up of various subsystems: from phonological, morphological, lexical to sentences Each language has a finite number of such structural items To learn a language means to learn these structural items to be able to understand and produce a language FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS Language is a linguistic system but also a means for doing things Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising etc. To learn a language in order to be able to do things with it. To perform functions learner needs to know how to combine grammatical rules & vocabulary to express different notions (present, future, possibility ) Functionalism Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (. Halliday): Halliday’s Brief Introduction 1925, born in Leeds, England; 1940s, taking his BA at London University in Chinese language and literature; 1940s-50s, studying linguistics as a graduate student, first in China (Peking University and Lingnan University, Canton) and then at Cambridge, where he received his PhD in 1955 1955-63, holding appointments at Cambridge and Edinburgh; 1963-70, teaching at University College London; 1973-75, teaching at the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle; 1976-2000 or so, teaching at the University of Sydney; Up to now, lecturing around the world, mainly in England, China, Hongkong, Japan and India. FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS: . Halliday An important figure in Functional Linguistics Famous for Systemic . | Historical Linguistics (3) . Halliday Dr. Ansa Hameed Previously . History of Linguistics Prelude Structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure Generative Linguistics: Chomsky Today’s Lecture Functionalism . Halliday Functionalism as New Paradigm FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS vs. STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS Functional linguistics focuses on language with perspectives different from structuralism. Language Structure Function Structuralism Functionalism Functionalism vs. Structuralism STRUCTURAL LINGUISTICS Language is a linguistic system made up of various subsystems: from phonological, morphological, lexical to sentences Each language has a finite number of such structural items To learn a language means to learn these structural items to be able to understand and produce a language FUNCTIONAL LINGUISTICS Language is a linguistic system but also a means for doing things Most of our day-to-day language use involves functional activities: offering, suggesting, advising etc. To learn a language in