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Preface
The manual “Comparative Typology of English and Native Languages”
is intended for students of Bachelor’s degree. The textbook can be used by the
students, teachers specializing
in English at Universities, Pedagogical Institutes,
Institutes of foreign languages and specialists engaged in the field of Comparative
Linguistics, and those, who are interested in the problems of the contrastive study
of language description.
Present-day Comparative Linguistics has been developing in compliance
with new modern research paradigms, under the influence of which it has
undergone radical changes. The main innovation
of the book lies in the
anthropocentric approach to linguistic phenomena, their analysis within the
framework of Communicative and Pragmatic Linguistics,
Cognitive Linguistics,
Linguoculturology and Gender Linguistics. Therefore there was the pressing need
to reconsider traditional notions and introduce new terms, such as categorization
and conceptualization. Interdisciplinary status of Comparative Linguistics.
The book consists of 6 units and every unit contains two parts that is
theoretical and practical.
The main notions and trends
of Comparative Linguistics, its history
evaluation, different approaches and views;
Typology of phonetic and phonological levels of English and Native
languages;
Typology of morphological level of
English and Native languages;
Typology of syntactic level of English and Native languages;
Typology of Lexical level of English and Native languages;
Interrelation of Typology with anthropological trends of Modern
Linguistics
Some fundamental problems of Comparative Linguistics were discussed
in theoretical part which contains
key points for discussion; questions for self-
control; rcommended literature; topics for independent work for students;
the list
of key-words.
Practical part is followed by a set of activities (classroom and for self-
improvement) and tasks enabling the students to test their knowledge. Besides,
there is an extended list of topics for presentation relevant to the subject of the
manual. The accompanying list of bibliographical reference will serve as a guide to
those who wish to attain a more complete view of the topics discussed. The list of
keys of activities is followed the reference.
Appended to the book is a glossary of terms
and notions given in a
compact and comprehensive form.
We are grateful to professor Siddikova I.A. and Ass.professor Nishonov
M.N. who reviewed the manual and made many valuable suggestions.
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