Praca zawiera wybór najważniejszych zagadnień i pojęć z podręcznika G. Yule: The study of language. Second Edition. Cambridge University Press 1996.
1. The origins of language.
2. The development of writing.
3. The properties of language.
4. Animals and human language.
5. The sounds of language.
6. The sound patterns of language.
7. Words and word-formation processes.
8. Morphology.
9. Phrases and sentences: grammar.
10. Syntax.
11. Semantics.
12. Pragmatics.
13. Discourse analysis.
14. Language and machines.
15. Language and the brain.
16. First language acquisition.
17. Second language acquisition/learning.
18. Sign language (na podstawie pracy Ewki Gackowskiej z http://www.sciaga.pl/tekst/67431-68-lingwistyka).
19. Language history and change.
20. Language varieties.
21. Language, society and culture.
Źródła obrazków:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/history/sites/language/images/language_family_tree.gif
http://people.umass.edu/neb/ConsonantChart.GIF
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bd/English_vowels.png
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/Linguistics/lectures/articula.gif