if you pursue your graduate study in the English department.РWhy bother to study linguisticsРHow to studyР网络教学平台?Preview and review?Relate it to your daily language use, use it as a tool to explain?An official account in Wechat : 语言学午餐Ling-LunchРWhat is special about language of linguistics?РLanguage monsense Vs. Language of science?The discourse of science cannot translate monsense without lost of meaning.?In any typical group of science students there will be some who find themselves in difficulty.РIs linguistics difficult to learn?Р人之为学有难易乎?学之,则难者亦易矣;不学,则易者亦难矣。РWhat to learn in this sessionРChapter 1 Invitations to linguistics?Chapter 2 Speech sounds ?Chapter 3 Morphology (word formation) ?Chapter 4 Syntax (sentence structure)?Chapter 5 Meaning?Chapter 8 Language in use (meaning in use)