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Further Reading
Allison, Desmond et al. (eds.) 1998. Text in Education and Society. Singapore: Singapore UP Ltd and World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd.
Chomsky, Noam. 2000. New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
Clark, Virginia P. et al. (eds.) 1985. Language—Introductory Readings. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Cobley, Paul. (ed.) 2001. The Routledge Companion to Semiotics and Linguistics. London & New York: Routledge.
Cogswell, David. （牛宏宝译）1996/1998. Chomsky for Beginners. Beijing: Oriental Press.
Crystal, David. 2002. The English Language. London: Penguin Books.
Eggins, Susanne. 1994. An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics. London: Pinter.
Halliday, M. A. K. 2003. On Grammar. London & New York: Continuum.
Harris, R. & G. Wolf. (eds.) 1998. Integrational Linguistics: A First Reader. New Oxford: Pergamon.
Hudson, Richard. 1995. Invitation to Linguistics. Oxford UK & Cambridge USA: Blackwell.
Poole, Stuart C. 2000. An Introduction to Lingusitics. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.
Matthews, P. H. 2001. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics. Shanghai: Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press.
Sapir, Edward. 1921. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company.
Questions and Exercises
1. What do you think should be a good definition of the term "language"? Justify the choice of the elements that you have incorporated in your definition.
2. Do you agree that "communication" is the only function of the human language?
3. Collect logos of organizations, companies, etc. and consider: how far is an organization's logo connected pictorially with its sphere of activity? And how far is the logo dependent for its meaning on being placed next to an identifying word?
4. Discuss the following picture and the saying by relating to the arbitrariness of language.
A Rose is still a rose by any other name?
5. How is the language of traffic lights different from human language?