Writing English Language Tests is for all teachers who write tests of English, from the classroom teacher writing for a particular class to the test constructor writing for an examination board. It gives detailed guidance on how to write, administer and score test questions, and how to avoid the pitfalls, It outlines the general principles of language testing, and shows how different types of test questions can be applied to different language tests.
The new edition of this well-established title reflects reccent development in language testing techniques, and contains a more comprehensive selection of sample test items from current examinations and tests administered by the major exmining bodies.

当代国外语言学与应用语言学文库》首批54种自2000年9月问世以来，取得很大成功，首印5000套供不应求，10月份便分开重印6000套。能在短短的几个月内出版发行如此宏大规模的语言学著作，这在我国学术出版发行史上是不多见的。自出版以来，许多单位和个人争相订购，研究生和大学生生把《文库》视为良师益友，教师无论老中青都把《文库》视为知识更新的源泉。实践证明，外研社推出的《文库》受到了国内语言学界和外语教学界的普遍好评，它将成为推动我国语言学教学与研究和外语教学与研究的一个宝库。
在成功出版《文库》首批54种的基础上，外研社现在又推出《文库》第二批58种。《文库》第二批具有五大特色：一、由58部英文原著组成，所覆盖的学科从首批的26个增加到现在的33个，新增学科包括语言学史、语言哲学、认知语言学、人类语言学、语言的起源、语法化学说等，能更广泛地满足读者的需求；二、收入了当代语言学大师索绪尔、萨丕尔、布龙菲尔德、韩礼德、乔姆斯基、奥斯汀、格莱斯、利奇等名家的最有影响的伤口具有更高的权威性；三、增加了牛津大学出版社、哈佛大学出版社等世界知名出版社出版的语言学经典著作；四、依然配有专家导读，专家的队伍比首批更为强大；五、世界著名语言学家乔姆斯基教授和我国著名语言学家沈家煊教授作序。
本《文库》是一个大型的、开放性的系列丛书，它将对我国语言教学与研究和外语教学与研究起到积极的推动作用。今后，外研社还将继续引进，争取把国外最新的、最具影响的语言学和应用语言学著作不断地奉献给广大读者。

《汉语语法专题研究(增订本)》主要内容：中国传统语言学，历来分为文字、音韵、训诂三大分支，基本上没有语法的地位。汉语语法学的建立，通常认为应该以1898年《马氏文通》（商务印书馆）的出版为标志。这一百多年来，汉语语法研究从无到有，从小到大，从幼稚到成熟，从一棵幼苗到成长为参天大树，经历了曲折的发展进程。现在，我们可以毫无愧色地说：现代汉语各个分支学科的研究中，语法研究的队伍最壮大，思想最活跃，成果最显著。进入了21世纪，我们有责任，也有义务，把这一百多年的研究历史，按照语法专题的框架，作一番认真的科学的梳理，以便总结成绩，找出不足，看清发展的趋势，为今后的研一究提供新的思路。

John L. Austin" was one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century. The William James Lectures presented Austin's conclusions in the field to which he directed his main efforts on a wide variety of philosophical problems. These talks became the classic "How to Do Things with Words." For this second edition, the editors have returned to Austin's original lecture notes, amending the printed text where it seemed necessary. Students will find the new text clearer, and, at the same time, more faithful to the actual lectures. An appendix contains literal transcriptions of a number of marginal notes made by Austin but not included in the text. Comparison of the text with these annotations provides new dimensions to the study of Austin's work.

Written by two of the leading figures in the field, this is a lucid and systematic introduction to formal semantics.

This is the most comprehensive and current introduction to phonological theory and analysis. Presupposing only minimal background in linguistics, the book introduces the basic concepts and principles of phonological analysis and then systematically develops the major innovations in the generative model since Chomsky and Halle's Sound Patterns of English (1968). Careful study of the text will enable the student to read the current scholarly literature with critical understanding and some perspective. Some unique features of the book include a set of exercises reinforcing the basic concepts and principles, illustrations from a variety of languages based on published and unpublished materials, a survey of all the major lines of research in phonological theory, and an extensive bibliography.

This is an account of the schism that developed in linguistics during the 1960s and 70s, between Noam Chomsky with his revolutionary ideas about mental structure and universal grammar, and his disciples who took his ideas in a direction he was unhappy with. The repercussions of this divisive and acrimonious dispute remain in the ways that linguists look at language and the mind.

This reference grammar provides, for the first time, a description of the grammar of "Mandarin Chinese", the official spoken language of China's mainland and Taiwan, in functional terms, focusing on the role and meanings of word-level and sentence-level structures in actual conversations.

本书研究语言变化的社会因素，概括了三十年来现代社会语言学的研究成果，主要材料来自作者本人对美国费城语言的经典研究，书中用社会阶层、街区、民族、性别、社会网络等章节确认了高层芝动阶级的女性是语方变化带领者，提出了包括弧线原理在内的四大变化原理。全书材料丰富，分析详尽，理论精辟，各种统计方法更为研究者提供实用的研究工具，毫无疑问，此卷经曲巨著为整个语言学科展示了崭新的研究领域，是有志于探索语言真谛学者的必备之书。
本书目录
导读（沈钟伟）
原文目录
原书前言
凡例
第一部分 语言社团
第一章 达尔文悖论
1.1　语言变化的社会效应
1.2　生物学和语言学之间的平行性
1.3　前人对音变原因的看法
1.4　音变的不同类别
1.5　语言和社会之间的有限界面
1.6　变化带领者的社会位置
1.7　个人、群族和社团
第二章　费城语言变化和变异（LCV）的研究
2.1　取样的问题
2.2　费城概况
2.3　探试阶段
2.4　街区研究
2.5　电话调查
第三章　稳定的社会语言变异
3.1　研究正在进行中的变化的必要背景条件
3.2　本章所要讨论的变量
3.3　稳定的语言变异的稳定性
3.4　费城的社会语言学案例
3.5　（dh）的阶层和风格的交叉制表
3.6　年龄的交叉制表
3.7　年龄和社会阶层的交叉制表
3.8　二次回归分析
3.9　探索社会阶层标识
3.10　小结
第四章　费城元音系统
4.1　费城方言地区
4.2　费城元音系统描写的基本框架
4.3　费城元音系统的早期纪录
4.4　20世纪720年代费城元音系统
4.5　显时音变的发展
第二部分　社会附层、性别、邻居和民族
第五章　在社会经济层次中带领者的定位
5.1　基本材料
5.2　精确度和误差来源
5.3　第一回归分析：年龄相关系数
5.4　社会阶层的初计算
5.4 社会阶层的初步计算
5.5 第二回归分析：年龄和社会阶层
5.6 第三回归分析：年龄向量的再分析
5.7 清辅音前（ay）的央元音化
5.8 电话调查
5.9 社会经济指标的构成成分
5.10 概述
5.11 阶层分布的进一步观察
5.12 弧线格局和变化原因
5.13 音变是否是适应过程的一部分？
第六章 进行中变化的主观反映
6.1 对语言变化主观反映的田野研究方法
6.2 费城主观反映的测试
6.3 费城主观反映的测试
第七章 街区和民族
第八章 性别悖论
第九章 性别、年龄和社会阶层的交叉
第三部分 语言变化的带领者
第十章 社会网络
第十一章 性别悖论的解释
第十二章 带领者的描述
第四部分 传递、增长和延续
第十三章 传递
第十四章 增第
第十五章 延续
第十六章 结论
后记
参考文献
索引

One of the first accounts of social variation in language, this groundbreaking study founded the discipline of sociolinguistics, providing the model on which thousands of studies have been based. In this second edition, Labov looks back on forty years of sociolinguistic research, bringing the reader up to date on its methods, findings and achievements. In over thirty pages of new material, he explores the unforeseen implications of his earlier work, addresses the political issues involved, and evaluates the success of newer approaches to sociolinguistic investigation. In doing so, he reveals the outstanding accomplishments of sociolinguistics since his original study, which laid the foundations for studying language variation, introduced the crucial concept of the linguistic variable, and showed how variation across age groups is an indicator of language change. Bringing Labov's pioneering study into the 21st century, this classic volume will remain the benchmark in the field for years to come.

《走近形式语用学》是《西方最新语言学理论译介》丛书的一种，系统介绍了当前国际语言学界关于形式语用学的最新进展，内容包括语用推理的实用逻辑观念；言语行为理论的形式语用学；博弈语用学；量化、数量和形式潜伏语用分析条件句增力研究；汉语违实句分析等。《走近形式语用学》在介绍西方理论的同时，力求有原创性的观点和分析。《走近形式语用学》还特别注重对汉语的研究，研究课题基本上都是在中文出版物中较新的题目。

This book investigates the relation between language and logic. Gennaro Chierchia looks at the way syntactic and inferential processes interact in determining polarity sensitive and free choice phenomena. He analyses these as a form of grammaticized scalar implicature and seeks to identify the common core of the polarity system by examining many of its manifestations as well as the choices that determine its diversity. To do so he reassesses the relations between syntax, semantics, and pragmatics and in the process makes startling insights into the relation of syntax to logic. Rudolf Carnap's classic, The Logical Syntax of Language, defines syntax as a lexicon and a set of formation rules and logic as a set of inference rules. Modern generative linguistics maintains a similar modular approach: a combinatorial apparatus is said to generate structures over which semantic and pragmatic relations, such as presupposition and implicature, are defined. This book argues by contrast that many structures typically perceived as syntactically deviant owe their status to their logical properties, in other words to whether they are contradictory or analytically true in specific ways. This alters the Carnapian view. The characterization of grammatical structure requires a more direct role of logical inferences: the functional lexicon of grammar comes, Professor Chierchia shows, with a set of inference rules that crucially and directly determine grammaticality patterns. Logic in Grammar presents the results of the author's decade-long work on pragmatics and scalar implicatures and extends his long-term project on how humans reason and categorize the world. It is a book that will interest linguists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists alike.

语言类型学研究什么？要回答这个问题，先要回答“语言学研究什么”这个问题。简单来说，语言学是研究人类语言中的要素和规则的。语言中的要素都是客观存在的，例如语音和词汇单位。语言中的规则也是客观存在的，例如构词法、句法、篇章构成的方法等等。
由金立鑫编著的《外语学术普及系列:什么是语言类型学》以问答的彤式，较为全面地介绍了语言类烈学的研究所史，现状和发展方向以及研究范嘲、研究内容、研究方法，与其他语畜学研究的关系等。

Blending the spirit of "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" with the science of "The Language Instinct," an original inquiry into the development of that most essential-and mysterious-of human creations: Language Language is mankind's greatest invention-except, of course, that it was never invented." So begins linguist Guy Deutscher's enthralling investigation into the genesis and evolution of language. If we started off with rudimentary utterances on the level of "man throw spear," how did we end up with sophisticated grammars, enormous vocabularies, and intricately nuanced degrees of meaning? Drawing on recent groundbreaking discoveries in modern linguistics, Deutscher exposes the elusive forces of creation at work in human communication, giving us fresh insight into how language emerges, evolves, and decays. He traces the evolution of linguistic complexity from an early "Me Tarzan" stage to such elaborate single-word constructions as the Turkish "sehirlilestiremediklerimizdensiniz" ("you are one of those whom we couldn't turn into a town dweller"). Arguing that destruction and creation in language are intimately entwined, Deutscher shows how these processes are continuously in operation, generating new words, new structures, and new meanings. As entertaining as it is erudite, "The Unfolding of Language" moves nimbly from ancient Babylonian to American idiom, from the central role of metaphor to the staggering triumph of design that is the Semitic verb, to tell the dramatic story and explain the genius behind a uniquely human faculty.

How did the biological, brain and behavioural structures underlying human language evolve? When, why and where did our ancestors become linguistic animals, and what has happened since? This book provides a clear, comprehensive but lively introduction to these interdisciplinary debates. Written in an approachable style, it cuts through the complex, sometimes contradictory and often obscure technical languages used in the different scientific disciplines involved in the study of linguistic evolution. Assuming no background knowledge in these disciplines, the book outlines the physical and neurological structures underlying language systems, and the limits of our knowledge concerning their evolution. Discussion questions and further reading lists encourage students to explore the primary literature further, and the final chapter demonstrates that while many questions still remain unanswered, there is a growing consensus as to how modern human languages have arisen as systems by the interplay of evolved structures and cultural transmission.

The 1975 publication of "Language and Woman's Place", with its argument that language is fundamental to gender inequality, inaugurated language and gender research. This volume presents the original text along with commentaries by Lakoff and 26 other leading scholars of language, gender, and sexuality. The new edition places the text in contemporary context for a new generation of readers.

Here is the captivating story of humankind’s enduring quest to build a better language—and overcome the curse of Babel. Just about everyone has heard of Esperanto, which was nothing less than one man’s attempt to bring about world peace by means of linguistic solidarity. And every Star Trek fan knows about Klingon. But few people have heard of Babm, Blissymbolics, Loglan (not to be confused with Lojban), and the nearly nine hundred other invented languages that represent the hard work, high hopes, and full-blown delusions of so many misguided souls over the centuries. With intelligence and humor, Arika Okrent has written a truly original and enlightening book for all word freaks, grammar geeks, and plain old language lovers.

This series supports the study of core topics that form substantial and identifiable parts of Linguistics degree courses as taught in the later years of undergraduate study. Each volume provides an in-depth introduction to a particular linguistic subdiscipline, while also engaging with recent research on the subject.

The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process. The young science of psycholinguistics attempts to uncover the mechanisms and representations underlying human language. This interdisciplinary field has seen massive developments over the past decade, with a broad expansion of the research base, and the incorporation of new experimental techniques such as brain imaging and computational modelling. The result is that real progress is being made in the understanding of the key components of language in the mind. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics brings together the views of 75 leading researchers in psycholinguistics to provide a comprehensive and authoritative review of the current state of the art in psycholinguistics. With almost 50 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled. The contributors are eminent in a wide range of fields, including psychology, linguistics, human memory, cognitive neuroscience, bilingualism, genetics, development and neuropsychology. Their contributions are organised into six themed sections, covering word recognition, the mental lexicon, comprehension and discourse, language production, language development, and perspectives on psycholinguistics. The breadth of coverage, coupled with the accessibility of the short chapter format should make the handbook essential reading for both students and researchers in the fields of psychology, linguistics and neuroscience.