原文 |
For most of our lifetime, we just use and comprehend our native language unconsciously without any arguments and questions. Only when we thought of our childhood and maybe brought up the children might we realize that how many complicated aspects are involved in the acquisition process. And after we have known the first language or native language, we try to learn a second language or foreign languages, we found it more difficult to understand that human beings have to make efforts to obtain the competence for language communication. Hence it is really important to know something about the short history of linguistics. Of course there are so many schools of linguistics in its history. But in this essay, only the comparison between Firthan Linguistics and Noam Chomsky’s Generative Grammar is presented to show you the similarities and differences of the two and how languages come into being. |
目录 |
1.Firth’s theory: 1) Analysis of language: structure / system; 2) He argues not only social process but also individual human beings are involved in the development of language. He emphasis the personal side of human being. 2.Another development in linguistics, which is also closely related to Firth, is prosodic analysis. 3.To make this clearer, we may contrast the systemic approach with Chomsky’s approach to grammar. |
参考资料 |
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