×课程描述COURSE DESCRIPTION) x This course is an introductory course to the study of language.It deals with topics that an English major or teacher should KNOW about language and the different subfields of LINGUISTICS,such as phonetics,phonology, morphology,syntax,semantics,pragmatics, and text/discourse analysis,as well as the different methods employed in the study, analysis,and understanding of language in each subfield. 课程描述（COURSE DESCRIPTION）  This course is an introductory course to the study of language. It deals with topics that an English major or teacher should KNOW about language and the different subfields of LINGUISTICS, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and text /discourse analysis, as well as the different methods employed in the study, analysis, and understanding of language in each subfield