《英语语言学基础教程》系统性、科学性和可行性；强调基础知识和基本技能，注重内容的重点与难点。突出编写语言的简洁流畅、清楚规范。突出内容的趣味性和可读性；注重选材的实用性和新颖性。突出教材容量适度，适合地方本科院校英语专业学生学习。突出编写力求从具体到抽象、从特殊到一般、从演绎到归纳、变枯燥为趣味、变复杂为简单。突出习题设计重点考察基础知识、基本技能和实践应用能力，形式多样化，选题多元化。
《英语语言学基础教程》参考借鉴了大量国内外同类教材，注重向学生传授语言学的基本理论知识，适当地介绍了过去五十年来语言学几个主要领域中所取得的最新研究成果。
Chapter 1 Language
1 Introduction
2 What Is Language？
3 设计 Features of Language
4 Functions of Language
5 Origins of Language
Chapter 2 Linguistics
1 What Is Linguistics？
2 Scopes of Linguistics
3 Some Basic Distinctions in Linguistics
4 Linguistics and Language Teaching and Learning
Chapter 3 Phonetics
1 What Is Phonetics？
2 Speech Organs
3 Description of Vowels
4 Description of Consonants
5 Phonetic Transcription
Chapter 4 Phonology
1 What Is Phonology？
2 Phone，Phoneme andAllophone
3 Complementary Distribution and Minimal Pairs
4 Some Phonological Rules
5 Distinctive Features
6 Beyond the Sound Segments
Chapter 5 词汇学
1 Introduction
2 Morpheme andAllomorph
3 Classification of Morpheme
4 Features of Morpheme
5 Characteristics of Word
6 Classification of Words
7 Microsoft Word Formation
Chapter 6 SYNTAX
1 Basic Concepts
2 Traditional Approach
3 Structural Approach
4 Generative Approach
5 Functional Approach
Chapter 7 语义学
1 What Is Semantics？
2 Some Semantic Theories
3 Sense and Reference
4 Sense Relation Between Words
5 Sense Relation Between Sentences
6 Analysis of Meaning
Chapter 8 Pragmatics
1 What Is Pragmatics？
2 Context and Meaning
3 Sentence Meaning and Utterance Meaning
4 Speech Act Theory
5 Principle of Conversation
6 Principle of Politeness
Chapter 9 Language and Culture
1 Introduction
2 What Is Culture？
3 Sapir—Whorf Hypothesis
4 Language and Culture in Language Teaching
5 Language and Culture in Language Learning
6 Language and Culture in Translation
Chapter 10 Language Acquisition
1 Introduction
2 First Language Acquisition
3 Second Language Acquisition
Appendix
附录1英语学习网址目录
附录2国内英语专业学术期刊目录
附录3英语语言学学习参考书目
附录4英语语言学常规考试题型
附录5英语语言学常用术语表
References