Английский язык: Язык. Фольклор. Литература. Ч. 1

Linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. <...> Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context. <...> The first is the study of language structure, or grammar. <...> This focuses on the system of rules followed by the speakers (or hearers) of a language. <...> Phonetics is a related branch of linguistics concerned with the actual properties of speech sounds and nonspeech sounds, and how they are produced and perceived. <...> Language in its broader context includes evolutionary linguistics, which considers the origins of language; historical linguistics, which explores language change; sociolinguistics, which looks at the relation between linguistic variation and social structures; psycholinguistics, which explores the representation and function of language in the mind; neurolinguistics, which looks at language processing in the brain; language acquisition, how children or adults acquire language; and discourse analysis, which involves the structure of texts and conversations. <...> Find the topic sentence of each part. 2. <...> Give Russian equivalents to the following English word combinations: scientific study of smth., language meaning, to focuse on smth., syntax, phonology, Phonetics, a related branch, to be produced and perceived, to employ logical structures and real-world references, to manage and resolve ambiguity,the subfield, semantics, pragmatics, evolutionary linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, the representation and function of language in the mind, language acquisition, discourse analysis, literature, anthropology, acoustics. 3. <...> Give English equivalents to the following word combinations: научное изучение, заключать в себя (касаться), образование и производство слов, фразы, предложения, система звуков, свойства звуков речи, значение, передавать, обрабатывать и устанавливать значение, выводить из контекста, происхождение языка, исследовать языковые изменения, овладевать языком, относиться к 3 speech-language pathology, neuroscience, языку и пересекаться с ним, изучение знаков и символов, разнообразные области науки. 4. <...> Make up a plan of the text in the form of questions. 5. <...> Retell the text, using expressions given in Task 3. <...> Origin of Language Human culture depends on the ability to speak. <...> All languages today are highly complex and are adequate to express all the facets of the speakers’ culture, and all languages can <...>