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新编简明英语语言学教程第二版复习笔记

新编简明英语语言学教程第二版复习笔记

新编简明英语语言学教程第二版复习笔记引言《新编简明英语语言学教程》(第二版)是一本全面介绍英语语言学的教材。

本文是根据该教材的内容整理出的复习笔记,旨在帮助读者复习和巩固所学知识。

本文将从语音学、形态学、句法学、语用学等方面进行总结和回顾。

一、语音学语音学是语言学的一个重要分支,研究语音的产生、传播和接收。

在英语语音学中,我们学习了音素、音节、音变等概念,以及发音方式和音系结构。

其中,音素是语音的最小单位,音节是由音素组成的单位,音变是音素在特定环境中发生的变化。

在语音学的学习中,我们还学习了国际音标的使用和表示方法。

国际音标是一种标记语音的符号系统,其中每个音素都有一个唯一的符号来表示。

通过学习国际音标,我们可以准确地记录和描述语音。

二、形态学形态学是研究词素和词法规则的学科。

在形态学中,我们学习了词的构成规则和形态变化。

英语中的词缀是词的构成要素,可以分为前缀、后缀和中缀。

词缀的加入或删除可以改变词的意思、词性或词态。

此外,我们还学习了各种词的形态变化规则,如名词的复数形式、动词的时态和语气等。

了解形态学规则对于理解和运用英语词汇是非常重要的。

三、句法学句法学是研究句子结构和句子成分之间关系的学科。

在句法学的学习中,我们学习了句子的基本成分,如主语、谓语、宾语和定语等。

我们还学习了句子的结构、成分之间的语法关系,以及句法规则的应用。

在英语句法学中,我们学习了句子的短语结构分析和句子树的表示方法。

通过短语结构分析和句子树,我们可以准确地分析句子的结构和成分关系。

四、语用学语用学研究的是语言的使用和交际。

在语用学的学习中,我们学习了语言的交际功能、意义和上下文的影响。

我们还学习了言语行为和语用规则,如请求、邀请、命令等。

了解语用学对于理解和运用英语是非常重要的。

结论《新编简明英语语言学教程》(第二版)是一本重要的英语语言学教材,其内容涵盖了语音学、形态学、句法学和语用学等方面的知识。

本文对该教材的内容进行了复习总结,并通过Markdown文本格式进行了输出。

语言学复习资料(全英)

语言学复习资料(全英)

第一部分选择题nguage is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human__.Ca. writingb. speakingc. communicationd. reading2. The study of language as a whole is ofen called__. Ba. applied linguisticsb. general linguisticsc.3. Saussure is a___ lingusit. Ca. Americanb. Russianc. Swiss4. It is generally believed that the beginning of morden lingusitics marked by the publication of the book?course in general linguistics5. Which of the following is not a major branch of lingusitic? Ba. syntaxb.speechc. phonologyd. pragmatics6. __ deals with how language is acquired, understood and produced? Ba. pragmaticsb. psycholinguisticsc. Anthropological linguistics7. Design features are proposed by the American linguist? Ca. Bloomfieldb. Hallc. Hockettd. Harris8. ___is not a design feature of human language? Da. Arbitrarinessb. displacementc. Dualityd. Diachronicity9. Among the following words, __ ends with a voiceless sound? Ca. bangb. thudc. crashd. wham10. Among the following words, __does not ends with a voiceless voiced?Aa. splatb. kinc. telld. bridge11. All the initial sounds of the following words are stops(爆破音) except? Ca. Billyb. crazyc. happyd. dizzy12. All the initial sounds of the following words are fricatives(摩擦音) except? Ba. fineb.writec. shyd. think13. All the initial sounds of the following words are bilabials(双唇音,如b p m) except? Ba. bellyb. calfc. playd. medicine14. All the following pair words would be treated minimal pairs(最小分别) except? Aa. meal—heatb. heat—healc. meal—heald. bell—bet15. The word glorification has entered the language by? Aa. derivational processb. add of inflectionsc. coinaged. functional shift16. The word gym is formed by ? Aa. clippingb. coinagec. borrowing17.UNESCO belongs to ? Da. clipped wordsb. borrowed wordsc. blendd. acronyms18. Syntax is the study of ? Ba. language functionsb. sentence structuresc. textual organization19. The word “lcid, child, offspring” are examples of ? Ba. dialectal synonymsb. stylistic synonymsc. emotive synonymsd. collocational synonyms20. All the following pairs of words contain the lexical relation of hyponymy(从属关系) except? Ca. automobile vehicleb. father , parentc. magazine, dictionaryd. fish, shark21. All the following pairs of words contain the lexical relation of hyponymy except? Aa. water , watemelonb. hurricane, stormc. ceremony , weddingd. captain, officer22. The phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form is called? Da. hyponymyb. synonymyc. polysemyd. homonymy(同形异义)23. All the following pairs of words contain the lexical relation of hyponymy except? Da. emotion , loveb. move, runc. occupation, teachingd. rose, tree24. ___ are a pair of complementary antonyms(互补反义关系)? Ba. doctor, patientb. absent, presentc. old, youngd. hot, cold25. ___ are a pair of gradable antonyms(等级关系)? Ca. alive, deadb. male, femalec. wide, narrowd. vacant, occupied26. ___ are a pair of relational antonyms? Aa. let, rentb. single, marriedc. fail, passd. appear, diasppear27. __ is best described as polysemy? Ca. The bookstores has some new titles in linguistics.b. Yes, I love those. I ate a whole box on Sunday.c. I had to park on the shoulder of the road.28. Leila: whoa! Has us boss gone crazy?Mary: Let’s go get some coffee.In the conversation, the maxim of ___ has been flouted(违背什么原则)? C(1) a. quantity b. quality c. relation d. mannerIn the utterance “Business is business.” The maxim of ___ has been flouted? A(2) a. quantity b. quality c. relation d. manner29. Charlence: I hope you brought the bread and cheese.Dether: Ah. I brought the bread.”In the conversation, the maxim of ___ has been flouted? Aa. quantityb. qualityc. relationd. manner30. In the utterance, “ John runs as fast as a deer.”The maxim of ___ has been flouted? Ba. quantityb. qualityc. relationd. manner第二部分T or F1 In ancient China, a famous philosopher named XUN ZI reasoned that a name was accepted, through public agreement, and the appropriateness of naming a thing laying convention. T2 Aristotle held that there was a universally correct and acceptable logic of language for man to follow in expressing his ideas. F (Plato)3 A diachronic statement is one about a language at one point in time, whereas a synchronic statement is one about a change or changes that took place over a period of time. F (弄反了)4 Language study today is descriptive rather prescriptive. T5 Auditory phonetics studies the physical properties of speech sounds, the way sounds travel from the speaker to the hearer. FArticulatory phonetics (production)Acoustic phonetics (transmission)6 Place of articulation English speech sounds can be divided into voiceless and voiced sounds. F ( manner of articulation)7 Phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language which can distinguish two words. T (Phoneme is the focus of Phonetics)8 Allophone is the phonetic variant of a phoneme, which can be substituted for another without bringing about a change of meaning. T9 Language of the world can be classified morphologically into 2 types: isolating&inflecting. F( 还有 agglutinating)10 Today’s English is more similar to an isolating language. T11 Words can have 2 kinds of meanings: denotative(字面) and connotative. Connotative meaning includes all the feelings, associations and emotions that a word touches off in different type. T12 According to Austin, illocutionary act refers to the basic literal meaning of the utterance which is conveyed by particular words and structures which the utterance contains. F (locutionary)13 The cooperative principle holds that people in conversation normally cooperate with one another, and that they assume that the others are cooperating to a maximum extent. T14 The uss of conversational maxims to imply meaning during conversation is calledconversational implicative. T第三部分1 what determines whether a string of words in language is language is a sentence or simply a string of un related words----syntax (句子如何组成合法句)2 how do people use language within a context --pragmatics3 what are words like? –morphology4what are speech sounds? What is their physical nature?—phonetics (孤立研究詞,句意義)5 how do sounds behave in languages? –phonology6 why does one set of words mean one thing and a similar set mean something very different?—semeics 語義學,特定語境下的意義7 when do two different sentences mean the same thing? How can one sentence mean more than one thing? --pragmatics 語境(同距在不同地方有不同意義)8 How similar are the process of listening and reading ?—Psycholinguistics (comprehension production , mental process through 語言習得acquisition)9 What are the major feature of the English language as it is used by women native speakers?—sociolinguistics10 How do we decide what is a dialect or accent and what is a language?—sociolinguistics11 (comprehension)What mechanisms operate during speech production to ensure that all the words come out in the right order and with the right intonation? –Psycholinguistics12 How do speakers signal their identity in the language they use, and why do people who live in specific communities sometimes speak in a similar way?—sociolinguistics13 How to teach a foreign language?—applied linguistics14 To what extent do children vary in their language acquisition and usage? And why?—Psycholinguistics15 Examine the text of a play for evidence of implicit messages, and consider what the playwright is deliberately conveying about the attitudes and personality of the characters?—applied linguistics把語言學運用到文學研究/statistics大题考下面三个. Key wordsContext 語境Speech act theory first, second language acquisition。

英语语言学复习资料 简答题

英语语言学复习资料 简答题

1.1. What is language?“Language is system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. It is a system, since linguistic elements are arranged systematically, rather than randomly. Arbitrary, in the sense that there is usually no intrins ic connection between a work (like “book”) and the object it refers to. This explains and is explained by the fact that different languages have different “books”: “book” in English, “livre” in French, in Japanese, in Chinese, “check” in Korean. It is symb olic, because words are associated with objects, actions, ideas etc. by nothing but convention. Namely, people use the sounds or vocal forms to symbolize what they wish to refer to. It is vocal, because sound or speech is the primary medium for all human l anguages, developed or “new”. Writing systems came much later than the spoken forms. The fact that small children learn and can only learn to speak (and listen) before they write (and read) also indicates that language is primarily vocal, rather than writt en. The term “human” in the definition is meant to specify that language is human specific.1.2. What are design features of language?“Design features” here refer to the defining properties of human language that tell the difference between human language and any system of animal communication. They are arbitrariness, duality, productivity, displacement, cultural transmission and interchangeability1.3. What is arbitrariness?By “arbitrariness”, we mean there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds (see I .1). A dog might be a pig if only the first person or group of persons had used it for a pig. Language is therefore largely arbitrary. But language is not absolutely seem to be some sound-meaning association, if we think of echo words, like “bang”, “crash”, “roar”, which are motivated in a certain sense. Secondly, some compounds (words compounded to be one word) are not entirely arbitrary either. “Type” and “write” are opaque or unmotivated words, while “type-writer” is less so, or more transparent or motivated than the words that make it. So we can say “arbitrariness” is a matter of degree.1.4.What is duality?Linguists refer “duality” (of structure) to the fact that in all languages so far investigated, one finds two levels of structure or patterning. At the first, higher level, language is analyzed in terms of combinations of meaningful units (such as morphemes, words etc.); at the second, lower level, it is seen as a sequence of segments which lack any meaning in themselves, but which combine to form units of meaning. According to Hu Zhanglin et al. (p.6), language is a system of two sets of structures, one of sounds and the other of meaning. This is important for the workings of language. A small number of semantic units (words), and these units of meaning can be arranged and rearranged into an infinite number of sentences (note that we have dictionaries of words, but no dictionary of sentences!). Duality makes it possible for a person to talk about anything within his knowledge. No animal communication system enjoys this duality, or even approaches this honor.1.5.What is productivity?Productivity refers to the ability to the ability to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of sentences in one’s native langua ge, including those that has never heard before, but that are appropriate to the speaking situation. No one has ever said or heard “A red-eyed elephant is dancing on the small hotel bed with an African gibbon”, but he can say it when necessary, and he can understand it in right register. Different from artistic creativity, though, productivity never goes outside the language, thus alsocalled “rule-bound creativity” (by N.Chomsky).1.6.What is displacement?“Displacement”, as one of the design features of the human language, refers to the fact that one can talk about things that are not present, as easily as he does things present. In other words, one can refer to real and unreal things, things of the past, of the present, of the future. Language itself can be talked about too. When a man, for example, is crying to a woman, about something, it might be something that had occurred, or something that is occurring, or something that is to occur. When a dog is barking, however, you can decide it is barking for s omething or at someone that exists now and there. It couldn’t be bow wowing sorrowfully for dome lost love or a bone to be lost. The bee’s system, nonetheless, has a small share of “displacement”, but it is an unspeakable tiny share.1.7.What is cultural transmission?This means that language is not biologically transmitted from generation to generation, but that the details of the linguistic system must be learned anew by each speaker. It is true that the capacity for language in human beings (N. Chomsky called it “language acquisition device”, or LAD) has a genetic basis, but the particular language a person learns to speak is a cultural one other than a genetic one like the dog’s barking system. If a human being is brought up in isolation he cannot acqui re language. The Wolf Child reared by the pack of wolves turned out to speak the wolf’s roaring “tongue” when he was saved. He learned thereafter, with no small difficulty, the ABC of a certain human language.1.8.What is interchangeability?(1) Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of messages. We can say, and on other occasions can receive and understand, for example, “Please do something to make me happy.” Though some people (including me) suggest tha t there is sex differentiation in the actual language use, in other words, men and women may say different things, yet in principle there is no sound, or word or sentence that a man can utter and a woman cannot, or vice versa. On the other hand, a person can be the speaker while the other person is the listener and as the turn moves on to the listener, he can be the speaker and the first speaker is to listen. It is turn-taking that makes social communication possible and acceptable.(2) Some male birds, however, utter some calls, which females do not (or cannot?), and certain kinds of fish have similar haps mentionable. When a dog barks, all the neighboring dogs bark. Then people around can hardly tell which dog (dogs) is (are0 “speaking” and which li stening.1.9.Why do linguists say language is human specific?First of all, human language has six “design features” which animal communication systems do not have, at least not in the true sense of them (see I .2-8). Let’s borrow C. F. Hocket’s Chart tha t compares human language with some animals’ systems, from Wang Gang (1998,p.8).Secondly, linguists have done a lot trying to teach animals such as chimpanzees to speak a human language but have achieved nothing inspiring. Beatnice and Alan Gardner brought up Washoe, a female chimpanzee, like a human child. She was taught “American sign Language”, and learned a little that made the teachers happy but did mot make the linguistics circle happy, for few believed in teaching chimpanzees.Thirdly, a human child reared among animals cannot speak a human language, not even when he istaken back and taught to lo to so (see the “Wolf Child”in I.7)1.10.What functions does language have?Language has at least seven functions: phatic, directive, Informative, interrogative, expressive, evocative and per formative. According to Wang Gang (1988,p.11), language has three main functions: a tool of communication, a tool whereby people learn about the world, and a tool by which people learn about the world, and a tool by which people create art. M .A. K.Halliday, representative of the London school, recognizes three “Macro-Functions”: ideational, interpersonal and textual (see! 11-17;see HU Zhuanglin et al., pp10-13, pp394-396).1. 11What is the phatic function?The “phatic function” refers to language being used for setting up a certain atmosphere or maintaining social contacts (rather than for exchanging information or ideas). Greetings, farewells, and comments on the weather in English and on clothing in Chinese all serve this function. Much of the phatic language (e.g. “How are you?” “Fine, thanks.”) Is insincere if taken literally, but it is important. If you don't say “Hello” to a friend you meet, or if you don’t answer his “Hi”, you ruin your friendship.1.12. What is the directive function?The “directive function” means that language may be used to get the hearer to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e.g., “Tell me the result when you finish.” Other syntactic structures or sen tences of other sorts can, according to J.Austin and J.Searle’s “indirect speech act theory”(see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp271-278) at least, serve the purpose of direction too, e.g., “If I were you, I would have blushed to the bottom of my ears!”1.13.What is the informative function?Language serves an “informational function” when used to tell something, characterized by the use of declarative sentences. Informative statements are often labeled as true (truth) or false (falsehood). According to P.Grice’s “Cooperative Principle”(see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp282-283), one ought not to violate the “Maxim of Quality”, when he is informing at all.1.14.What is the interrogative function?When language is used to obtain information, it serves an “interrogative function”. This includes all questions that expect replies, statements, imperatives etc., according to the “indirect speech act theory”, may have this function as well, e.g., “I’d like to know you better.” This may bring forth a lot of personal information. Note that rhetorical questions make an exception, since they demand no answer, at least not the reader’s/listener’s answer.1.15.What is the expressive function?The “expressive function” is the use of language to reveal something about the feelings or att itudes of the speaker. Subconscious emotional ejaculations are good examples, like “Good heavens!” “My God!” Sentences like “I’m sorry about the delay” can serve as good examples too, though in a subtle way. While language is used for the informative function to pass judgment on the truth or falsehood of statements, language used for the expressive function evaluates, appraises or asserts the speaker’s own attitudes.1.16.What is the evocative function?The “evocative function” is the use of language to cr eate certain feelings in the hearer. Its aim is, for example, to amuse, startle, antagonize, soothe, worry or please. Jokes (not practical jokes, though) are supposed to amuse or entertain the listener; advertising to urge customers to purchase certain commodities; propaganda to influence public opinion. Obviously, the expressive and the evocative functions often go together, i.e., you may express, for example, your personal feelings about a political issue but end up by evoking the same feeling in, or impo sing it on, your listener. That’s also the case with the other way round.1.17.What is the per formative function?This means people speak to “do things” or perform actions. On certain occasions the utterance itself as an action is more important than what words or sounds constitute the uttered sentence. When asked if a third Yangtze Bridge ought to be built in Wuhan, the mayor may say, “OK”, which means more than speech, and more than an average social individual may do for the construction. The judge’si mprisonment sentence, the president’s war or independence declaration, etc., are per formatives as well (see J.Austin’s speech Act Theory, Hu Zhuanglin, ecal.pp271-278).1.18.What is linguistics?“Linguistics” is the scientific study of language. It studi es not just one language of any one society, but also the language of all human beings. A linguist, though, does not have to know and use a large number of languages, but to investigate how each language is constructed. He is also concerned with how a language varies from dialect to dialect, from class to class, how it changes from century to century, how children acquire their mother tongue, and perhaps how a person learns or should learn a foreign language. In short, linguistics studies the general principles whereupon all human languages are constructed and operate as systems of communication in their societies or communities (see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp20-22)1.19.What makes linguistics a science?Since linguistics is the scientific study of language, it ought to base itself upon the systematic, investigation of language data, which aims at discovering the true nature of language and its underlying system. To make sense of the data, a linguist usually has conceived some hypotheses about the language structure, to be checked against the observed or observable facts. In order to make his analysis scientific, a linguist is usually guided by four principles: exhaustiveness, consistency, and objectivity. Exhaustiveness means he should gather all the materials relevant to the study and give them an adequate explanation, in spite of the complicatedness. He is to leave no linguistic “stone” unturned. Consistency means there should be no contradiction between different parts of the total statement. Economy means a linguist should pursue brevity in the analysis when it is possible. Objectivity implies that since some people may be subjective in the study, a linguist should be (or sound at least) objective, matter-of-face, faithful to reality, so that his work constitutes part of the linguistics research.1.20.What are the major branches of linguistics?The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics (e.g.Hu Zhuanglin et al., 1988;Wang Gang, 1988). But a linguist sometimes is able to deal with only one aspect of language at a time, thus the arise of various branches: phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics,applied linguistics, pragmatics, psycholinguistics, lexicology, lexicography, etymology, etc.1.21.What are synchronic and diachronic studies?The description of a language at some point of time (as if it stopped developing) is a synchrony study (synchrony). The description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study (diachronic). An essay entitle d “On the Use of THE”, for example, may be synchronic, if the author does not recall the past of THE, and it may also be diachronic if he claims to cover a large range or period of time wherein THE has undergone tremendous alteration (see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp25-27).1.22.What is speech and what is writing?(1) No one needs the repetition of the general principle of linguistic analysis, namely, the primacy of speech over writing. Speech is primary; because it existed long long before writing systems came into being. Genetically children learn to speak before learning to write. Secondly, written forms just represent in this way or that the speech sounds: individual sounds, as in English and French as in Japanese. (2) In contrast to speech, spoken form of language, writing as written codes, gives language new scope and use that speech does not have. Firstly, messages can be carried through space so that people can write to each other. Secondly, messages can be carried through time thereby, so that people of our time can be carried through time thereby, so that people of our time can read Beowulf, Samuel Johnson, and Edgar A. Poe. Thirdly, oral messages are readily subject to distortion, either intentional or unintentional (causing misunderstanding or malentendu), while written messages allow and encourage repeated unalterable reading.(3) Most modern linguistic analysis is focused on speech, different from grammarians of the last century and theretofore.1.23.What are the differences between the descriptive and the prescriptive approaches?A linguistic study is “descriptive” if it only describes and analyses the facts of language, and “prescriptive” if it tries to lay down rules for “correct” language behavior. Linguistic studies before t his century were largely prescriptive because many early grammars were largely prescriptive because many early grammars were based on “high” (literary or religious) written records. Modern linguistics is mostly descriptive, however. It (the latter) believes that whatever occurs in natural speech (hesitation, incomplete utterance, misunderstanding, etc.) should be described in the analysis, and not be marked as incorrect, abnormal, corrupt, or lousy. These, with changes in vocabulary and structures, need to be explained also.1.24.What is the difference between langue and parole?F. De Saussure refers “langue”to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community and refers “parole” to the actual or actualized language, or the real ization of langue. Langue is abstract, parole specific to the speaking situation; langue not actually spoken by an individual, parole always a naturally occurring event; langue relatively stable and systematic, parole is a mass of confused facts, thus not suitable for systematic investigation. What a linguist ought to do, according to Saussure, is to abstract langue from instances of parole, I. e. to discover the regularities governing all instances of parole and make than the subject of linguistics. The langue-parole distinction is of great importance, which casts great influence on later linguists.1.25.What is the difference between competence and performance?(1) According to N. Chomsky, “competence” is the ideal language user’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and “performance” is the actual realization of this knowledge in utterances. The former enables a speaker to produce and understand an indefinite number of sentences and to recognize grammatical mistakes and ambiguities. A speaker’s competence is stable while his performance is often influenced by psychological and social factors. So a speaker’s performance does not always match or equal his supposed competence.(2) Chomsky believes that linguists ought to study competence, rather than performance. In other words, they should discover what an ideal speaker knows of his native language.(3) Chomsky’s competence-performance distinction is not exactly the same as, though similar to,F. de Saussure’s langue-parole distinction. Langue is a social product, and a set of conventions for a community, while competence is deemed as a property of the mind of each individual. Sussure looks at language more from a sociological or sociolinguistic point of view than N. Chomsky since the latter deals with his issues psychologically or psycholinguistically.1.26.What is linguistic potential? What is actual linguistic behavior?M. A. K. Halliday made these two terms, or the potential-behavior distinction, in the 1960s, from a functional point of view. There is a wide range of things a speaker can do in his culture, and similarly there are many things he can say, for example, to many people, on many topics. What he actually says (i.e. his “actual linguistic behavior”) on a certain occasion to a certain person is what he has chosen from many possible injustice items, each of which he could have said (linguistic potential).1.27.In what way do language, competence and linguistic potential agree? In what way do they differ? And their counterparts?Langue, competence and linguistic potential have some similar features, but they are innately different (see 1.25). Langue is a social product, and a set of speaking conventions; competence is a property or attribute of each ideal speaker’s mind; linguis tic potential is all the linguistic corpus or repertoire available from which the speaker chooses items for the actual utterance situation. In other words, langue is invisible but reliable abstract system. Competence means “knowing”, and linguistic potenti al a set of possibilities for “doing” or “performing actions”. They are similar in that they all refer to the constant underlying the utterances that constitute what Saussure, Chomsky and Halliday respectively called parole, performance and actual linguistic behavior. Paole, performance and actual linguistic behavior enjoy more similarities than differences.1.28.What is phonetics?“Phonetics” is the science which studies the characteristics of human sound-making, especially those sounds used in speech, and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription (see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp39-40), speech sounds may be studied in different ways, thus by three different branches of phonetics. (1) Articulatory phonetics; the branch of phonetics that examines the way in which a speech sound is produced to discover which vocal organs are involved and how they coordinate in the process. (2) Auditory phonetics, the branch of phonetic research from the hearer’s point of view, looking into the impression which a speech sound makes on the hearer as mediated by the ear, the auditory nerve and the brain. (3) Acoustic phonetics: the study of the physical properties of speech sounds, as transmitted between mouth and ear.Most phoneticians, however, are interested in articulator phonetics.1.29.How are the vocal organs formed?The vocal organs (see Figure1, Hu Zhuanglin et al., p41), or speech organs, are organs of the human body whose secondary use is in the production of speech sounds. The vocal organs can be considered as consisting of three parts; the initiator of the air-stream, the producer of voice and the resonating cavities.1.30.What is place of articulation?It refers to the place in the mouth where, for example, the obstruction occurs, resulting in the utterance of a consonant. Whatever sound is pronounced, at least some vocal organs will get involved. g. Lips, hard palate etc., so a consonant may be one of the following (1) bilabial: [p, b, m]; (2) labiodental: [f, v]; (3) dental: [,]; (4) alveolar: [t, d, l, n.s, z]; (5) retroflex; (6) palato-alveolar: [,]; (7) palatal: [j]; (8) velar [k, g,]; (9) uvular; (10) glottal: [h].Some sounds involve the simultaneous use of two places of articulation. For example, the English [w] has both an approximation of the two lips and those two lips and that of the tongue and the soft palate, and may be termed “labial-velar”.1.31.What is the manner of articulation?The “manner of articulation” literally means the way a sound is articulated. At a given place of articulation, the airstreams may be obstructed in various ways, resulting in various manners of articulation, are the following: (1) plosive: [p, b, t, d, k, g]; (2) nasal: [m, n,]; (3) trill; (4) tap or flap; (5) lateral: [l]; (6) fricative: [f, v, s, z]; (7) approximant: [w, j]; (8) affricate: [].1.32.How do phoneticians classify vowels?Phoneticians, in spite of the difficulty, group vowels in 5 types: (1) long and short vowels, e.g.,[i:,]; (4) rounded and unround vowels,e.g.[,i]; (5) pure and gliding vowels, e.g.[I,].1.33.What is IPA? When did it come into being ?The IPA, abbreviation of “International Phonetic Alphabet”, is a compromise system making use of symbols of all sources, including diacritics indicating length, stress and intonation, indicating phonetic variation. Ever since it was developed in 1888, IPA has undergone a number of revisions.1.34.What is narrow transcription and what is broad transcription?In handbook of phonetics, Henry Sweet made a distinction between “narrow” and “broad” transcriptions, which he called “Narrow Romic”. The former was meant to symbolize all the possible speech sounds, including even the most minute shades of pronunciation while Broad Romic or transcription was intended to indicate only those sounds capable of distinguishing one word from another in a given language.1.35.What is phonology? What is difference between phonetics and phonology?(1) “Phonology” is the study of sound systems- the invention of distinctive speech sounds that occur in a language and the patterns wherein they fall. Minimal pair, phonemes, allophones, free variation, complementary distribution, etc., are all to be investigated by a phonologist.(2) Phonetics, as discussed in I.28, is the branch of linguistics studying the characteristics ofspeech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription. A phonetist is mainly interested in the physical properties of the speech sounds, whereas a phonologist studies what he believes are meaningful sounds related with their semantic features, morphological features, and the way they are conceived and printed in the depth of the mind phonological knowledge permits a speaker to produce sounds which from meaningful utterances, to recognize a foreign “accent”, to make up new words, to add the appropriate phonetic segments to from plurals and past tenses, to know what is and what is not a sound in one’s language.1.36.What is a phone? What is a phoneme? What is an allophone?(1) A “phone” is a p honetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. When we hear the following words pronounced:[pit], [tip], [spit], etc., the similar phones we have heard are [p] for one thing, and three differe nt[p]’s, readily making possible the “narrow transcription or diacritics”. Phones may and may not distinguish meaning. A “phoneme” is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. As an abstract unit, a phoneme is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context. For example, the phoneme[p] is represented differently in [pit], [tip] and [spit].(2) The phones representing a phoneme are called its “allophones”, i. e., the different (i.e., phones) but do not make one word so phonetically different as to create a new word or a new meaning thereof. So the different[p]’s in the above words are the allophones of the same phoneme[p]. How a phoneme is represented by a phone, or which allophone is to be used, is determined by the phonetic context in which it occurs. But the choice of an allophone is not random. In most cases it is rule-governed; these rules are to be found out by a phonologist.1.37.What are minimal pairs?When two different phonetic forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occurs in the same place in the string , the two forms(i. e., word) are supposed to form a “minimal pair”, e.g., “pill” and “bill”, “pill” and “till”, “till” and “dill”, “till” and “kill”, etc. All these words together constitute a minimal set. They are identical in form except for the initial consonants. There are many minimal pairs in English, which makes it relatively easy to know what are English phonemes. It is of great importance to find the minimal pairs when a phonologist is dealing with the sound system of an unknown language(see Hu Zhuanglin et al., pp65-66).1.38.What is free variation?If two sounds occurring in the same environment do not contrast; namely, if the substitution of one for the other does not generate a new word form but merely a different pronunciation of the same word, the two sounds then are said to be in “free variation”. The plosives, for example, may not be exploded when they occur before another plosive or a nasal (e. g., act, apt, good morning). The minute distinctions may, if necessary, be transcribed in diacritics. These unexploded and exploded plosives are in free variation. Sounds in free variation should be assigned to the same phoneme.1.39.What is complementary distribution?When two sounds never occur in the same environment, they are in “complementary distribution”. For example, the aspirated English plosives never occur after[s], and the unsaturated ones never occur initially. Sounds in complementary distribution may be assigned to the same phoneme. The allophones。

语言学复习资料

语言学复习资料

语言学复习资料下定义1.(P3)Sociolinguistics(社会语言学): The studies of all the social aspects of language and its relation with society is called sociolinguistics.2.(P7)Language(语言): Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.3.(P8)Arbitrariness(任意性): This means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds.4.(P2)Phonetics(语音学):Phonetic refers to the study of sounds used in linguistic communication.5.(P16)Voicing(浊音化): Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds.6.(P26)Assimilation rule(同化规则): The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by “copying” a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar.7.(P29)Intonation(语调): When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation.8.(P42)Syntax(句法): Syntax is a branch of linguistics that studies the rules that govern the formation of sentences.9.(P42)Category(范畴): Category refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb.10.(P48)Complementizers(补语化成分):Words which introduce the sentence complement are termed complementizers.11.(P53)Head movement(中心语移动): The movement of a word from the head position in one phrase into the head positionin another is known as head movement.12.(P64-65)Linguistic context(语言语境): The linguistic context is concerned with the probability of a word’s co-occurrence or collocation with another word.13.(P66)Reference(所指): Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world.14.(P70)Relational opposites(关系反义词): Pairs of words that exhibit the reversal of a relationship between the two items are called relational opposites.15.(P74)Argument(论元): An argument is a logical participant in a predication, largely identical with a nominal element in a sentence.16.(P77)Pragmatics(语用学): Pragmatics is the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.17.(P81)Constatives(表述句): Constatives are statements that either state or describe, and are thus verifiable.填空题第一章1. (P3) If a linguistic aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, it is said to be descriptive(描写性的). If the linguistic study aims to lay down rules for “correct and standard” behavior in using language, it is said to be prescriptive(规定性的).2.(P4) The description of a language at some point of time in history is a synchronic(共时的)study; the description of a language as it changes through time isa diachronic(历时的)study.3.(P4) Langue(语言)refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole(言语)refers to the realization of language in actual use4. (P5) Chomsky defines competence(语言能力)as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance (语言表现)the actual realization of his knowledge in linguistic communication.第二章5.(P17)As some speech sounds produced differ only in some detailed aspects, the IPA provides its users with another set of symbols called diacritics(发音符号/辨音符)6. (P23) A phoneme(音素)is a phonological unit, it is a unit that is of distinctive value, it is an abstract value.7. (P24) It can be easily observed that phonetically similar sounds might be related in two ways. If they are two distinctive phonemes,they are said to form a phonemic contrast(音素对照),e.g. /p/ and /b/ in [pit] and [bit].8. (P24)When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segment which occur the same position in the strings, the two sound combinations are said to from a minimal pair(最小配对).e.g pill and bill, pill and till are a minimal pair.9.(P25) Rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language, the rules are called sequential rules(序列规则).10.(P27) The phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called suprasegmental feature(超音段特征).第三章11.(P33)Morpheme(词素): the smallest unit of language that carries information about meaning or function.A morpheme which can be a word by itself is called a free morpheme(自由词素). Whereas a morpheme that must beattached to another one is called bound morpheme(粘着词素).12.(P33) The variant forms of a morpheme are called its allomorphs(词素变体).第四章13. (P44) Syntactic units that are built around a certain word category are called phrases(短语), the category of which is determined by the word category around which the phrase is built.14. (P45)Phrases that are formed of more than one word usually contain the following elements: head(中心语), specifier(标志语)and complement(补语).15. (P48)The information about a word’s complement is included in the head andtermed subcategorization(次范畴化).16. (P52) Transformation(转换)is a special type of rule that can move an element from one position to another.第五章17. (P67-68)Synonymy:近义关系的分类:1) Dialectal synonyms(方言同义词)-- synonyms used in different regional dialects.(来自不同地域的人使用同一种语言产生的不同)2) Stylistic synonyms(文体同义词) -- synonyms differing in style3) Synonyms that differ in their emotive or evaluative(评价) meaning4) Collocational synonyms(搭配同义)5) Semantically different synonyms(不考)18.(P69) When two words are identical in sound, they are homophones(同音不同形不同义). When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs(同形不同音不同义). When twowords are identical in both sound and spelling, they are complete homonyms(同形同音不同义).19. (P70) Antonymy:反义关系的分类1) Gradable antonyms(可分等级的反义词)2) Complementary antonyms(互补反义词)3) Relational opposites(关系反义词)20.(P72) Componential analysis(成分分析)is a way proposed by the structural semanticists to analyze word meaning. The approach is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components, called semantic features.第六章21. (P81)Three Speech Acts:三种言语行为According to Austin new model, a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking:locutionary act(言内行为), illocutionary act(言外行为), and perlocutionary act(言后行为).22.(P90)Pragmatic failure(语用失误) occurs when the speaker fails to use language effectively to achieve a specific communicative purpose, or when the hearer fails to recognize the intention or the illocutionary(言外之意) force of the speaker’s utterance in the context of c ommunication.第八章23.(P111) Speech variety(言语变体), or language variety, refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or a group of speakers.24. (P117) Halliday further distinguishes three social variables(语域三变量)that determine the register: field of discourse(语场), tenor of discourse(语旨), and mode of discourse(语式).25. (P122) The term diglossia(双言制度) refers to a sociolinguistic situation similar to bilingualism where two varieties of a language exist side by side throughout the community, with each having a definite role to play.上一页下一页。

英语下学期总复习资料

英语下学期总复习资料

英语下学期总复习资料英语下学期总复习资料英语作为一门重要的国际语言,对于我们来说具有重要的意义。

下学期即将结束,为了帮助大家复习英语,我整理了一些总复习资料,希望对大家有所帮助。

一、语法复习1. 时态:复习各种时态的构成和用法,包括一般现在时、一般过去时、一般将来时等。

注意各种时态的肯定、否定和疑问句的构成。

2. 从句:复习宾语从句、定语从句和状语从句的构成和用法。

注意从句的引导词和语序的变化。

3. 名词和代词:复习名词的单复数形式、所有格和代词的人称、数和格的变化规则。

4. 形容词和副词:复习形容词和副词的比较级和最高级形式的构成和用法。

5. 介词和冠词:复习介词和冠词的用法,特别是一些常见的固定搭配。

二、词汇复习1. 同义词和反义词:复习一些常见的同义词和反义词,扩大词汇量。

2. 词根和词缀:复习一些常见的词根和词缀,帮助理解和记忆生词。

3. 短语和习惯用语:复习一些常用的短语和习惯用语,提高语言表达的准确性和流利度。

三、听力复习1. 听力技巧:复习一些常用的听力技巧,如预测、推测和判断等,提高听力理解能力。

2. 听力材料:找一些有关主题的听力材料进行听力训练,注意听懂关键信息和主旨要点。

四、阅读复习1. 阅读技巧:复习一些常用的阅读技巧,如快速阅读、略读和详读等,提高阅读理解能力。

2. 阅读材料:找一些有关主题的阅读材料进行阅读训练,注意理解文章的结构和主题要点。

五、写作复习1. 写作技巧:复习一些常用的写作技巧,如段落结构、句子连接和词汇替换等,提高写作表达的准确性和流利度。

2. 写作练习:找一些有关主题的写作练习,注意练习各种写作形式,如记叙文、说明文和议论文等。

六、口语复习1. 口语技巧:复习一些常用的口语技巧,如表达观点、提出建议和回应问题等,提高口语表达的准确性和流利度。

2. 口语练习:找一些有关主题的口语练习,注意练习各种口语形式,如对话、演讲和辩论等。

以上是英语下学期总复习资料的简要介绍。

(完整word版)新编简明英语语言学教程复习资料

(完整word版)新编简明英语语言学教程复习资料

(完整word版)新编简明英语语言学教程复习资料Chapter one Introduction一、定义1.语言学LinguisticsLinguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.2.普通语言学General LinguisticsThe study of language as a whole is often called General linguistics.3.语言languageLanguage is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.语言是人类用来交际的任意性的有声符号体系。

4.识别特征Design FeaturesIt refers to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.语言识别特征是指人类语言区别与其他任何动物的交际体系的限定性特征。

Arbitrariness任意性Productivity多产性Duality双重性Displacement移位性Cultural transmission文化传递The design features mentioned in the course book include arbitrariness, productivity or creativity, duality, displacement and cultural transmission.By arbitrariness it is meant that the symbols used in human language are arbitrary, i.e. there is no logical connection between the symbols and what they stand for.The feature of productivity means that language is productive or creative, i.e. it is possible for its users to construct and understand an unlimited number of sentences, includingsentences they have never heard before.Duality is a feature of the structure of the human language system, which consists of two levels. At the lower level there exist a limited number of sounds which are meaningless, while at the higher level these meaningless sounds can be arranged and rearranged in various ways to form meaningful language units, unlimited in number.The feature of displacement means that language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or unreal, in the past, present, or future.Cultural transmission, in contrast to genetic transmission, refers to the fact that human babies, though born with the ability to acquire a language, must be taught to use it.5.语言能力CompetenceCompetence is the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language.6.语言运用performancePerformance is the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.语言运用是所掌握的规则在语言交际中的体现。

英语语言学复习资料

英语语言学复习资料

英语语言学复习资料一:名词解释1. Language (语言) is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.2. Linguistics(语言学) is generally defined as the scientific study of language.3. General linguistics(普通/一般语言学)The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics.4. Phonetics(语音学) the study of sounds used in linguistic communication led to the establishment of phonetics.5. Phonology(语音体系) how sounds are put together and used to convey meaning in communication.6. Morphology(形态学) these symbols are arranged and combined to form words has constituted the branch of study called morphology.7. Syntax(句法学) then the combination of words to form grammatically permissible sentences in languages is governed by rules. The study of these rules constitutes a major branch of linguistic studies called syntax.8. Semantics(语意学) the study of meaning is known as semantics.9. Pragmatics(语用学) when the study of meaning is conducted, not in isolation, but in the context of language use, it becomes another branch of linguistic study called pragmatics.10. Phone(音素) is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones.11. Phoneme(音位) is a phonological unit; it is a unit that is of distinctive value. It is an abstract unit. It is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context.12. Allophones(音位变体) the different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones.13. IPA(International Phonetic Alphabet国际音标) It’s a standardized and internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription. The basic principle of the IPA is using one letter selected from major European languages to represent one speech sound.14. Diacritics(变音符) it is a set of symbols which are added to the letter-symbols to bring out the finer distinctions.15. broad transcription(宽式标音) one is the transcription with letter-symbols only.16. narrow transcription(严式标音) the other is the transcription with letter-symbols together with the diacritics.17. open class words(开放类词) In English , open class words are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. We can regularly add new words to these classes. 18. closed class words(封闭类词) In English , closed class word are conjunctions, prepositions, articles and pronouns. New words are not usually added to them. 19. Morpheme(词素) the most basic element of meaning is traditionally called morpheme.20. bound morpheme(黏着词素) morphemes which occurs only before othermorphemes. They cannot be used alone.21. free morpheme(自由词素) it is the morphemes which can be used alone.22. suprasegmental features(超音段特征) the phonemic features that occur above the level of the segments are called suprasegmental features.23. Category(范畴) it refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence ,a noun phrase or a verb.24. Phrases(短语) Syntactic units that are built around a certain word category are called phrases.二:简答题1. Three distinct of phonetics(语音学的三个分支?)Articulatory phonetics发音语音学; auditory phonetics听觉语音学; acoustic phonetics声光语音学.2. Main features of language(语言的主要特征?)Language is a system. Language is arbitrary. Language is vocal. Language is human-specific.3. Synchronic vs. diachronic(共识语言学与历史语言学的区别?)Language exists in time and changes through time. The description of a language at some point of time in history is a synchronic study; the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study. A diachronic study of language is a historical study; it studies the historical development of language over a period of time.4. Speech and writing (言语与文字的区别?)Speech and writing are the two major media of linguistic communication. From the point of view of linguistic evolution, speech is prior to writing. The writing system of any language is always “invented” by its users to record speech when the need arises. Then in everyday communication, speech plays a greater role than writing in terms of the amount of information conveyed, speech is always the way in which every native speaker acquires his mother tongue, and writing is learned and taught late r when he goes to school. Written language is only the “revised” record of speech.5. What are the branches of linguistic study?(语言学研究领域中的主要分支有哪些?)1) sociolinguistics; 2) psycholinguistics; 3)applied linguistics and so on.6. Traditional grammar and modern linguistics(传统语法与现代语言学的区别?) Firstly, linguistics is descriptive while traditional grammar is prescriptive. Second, modern linguistics regards the spoken language as primary, not the written. Traditional grammarians, tended to emphasize, maybe over-emphasize, the importance of the written word.Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar also in that it does not force languages into a Latin-based framework.7. Prescriptive vs. descriptive (语言学中描写性与规定性的特征是什么?) Prescriptive and descriptive represent two different types of linguistic study. If a linguistic study aims to describe and analyze the language people actually use, it issaid to be descriptive; if the linguistic study aims to lay down rules for “correct and standard”behavior in using language, it is said to be prescriptive. 8. Design features of language (语言的识别特征?)Arbitrariness随意性,productivity生产性, duality 二重性, displacement 不受时空限制的特征, cultural transmission 文化传递系统.9. Competence and performance (语言能力与语言行为的区别?)Competence is defined as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. Chomsky looks at language from a psychological point of view and to him competence is a property of the mind of each individual. 10. Organs of speech (发音器官)Pharyngeal cavity—the throat, oral cavity—the mouth, nasal cavity—the nose.11. Word-level categories(决定词范畴的三个标准)To determine a word’s category,three criteria are usually employed, namely meaning, inflection and distribution.三:问题回答1. Some rules in phonology(音位学规则)sequential rules(序列规则);assimilation rule (同化规则) ;deletion rule(省略规则)。

英语语言学下复习资料

英语语言学下复习资料

一、填空Chapter 51. One difficulty in the study of Meaning is that the word “meaning” itself has different meanings. In their book The Meaning of Meaning written in 1923, C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards presented a “representative list of the main definitions which reputable students of meaning have favoured”.2. G.Leechin a more moderate tone recognizes 7 types of meaning in his Semantics, first published in 1974.3. There are generally three kinds of sense relations recognized, namely, sameness relation, oppositeness relation and inclusiveness relation.Chomsky’ of Syntactic Structure(1957) helped to ignite the cognitive revolution.5. The exist three approaches to the study of language and cognition: the formal approach, the psychological approach and the conceptural approach.6. The most important research subjects are acquisition, comprehension and production.7.From a psychological point of view, we store a great deal of information about the properties of words in our mental lexicon心理词库, and retrieve this information when we understand language.8.Similarity and frequency both play important roles in processing and comprehending language, with the novel items being processed based on their similarity to the known ones.9.According to cohort model集群理论proposed by Marslen- wilson and Welsh in 1990.Chapter 7*四个代表人物10.Malinowski马林洛夫斯基claimed that” In its primitive uses, language functions as a link in concerted human activity…”11.Firth福斯,a leading figure in a linguistic tradition later known as the London School, tried to...In the end, he developed his own theory of Context of Situation. 12.M.A.K. Halliday韩礼德,whose contributions to sociolinguistics could be …. , and his linguistic model in the study of literature.13. Eugene Nida尤金奈达, a well-known linguist and traditional theorist, concerning the relationship between language and culture.14.Hypothesis has alternatively been referred to as linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity.15. Cross-cultural communication跨文化交际中,there are five types of sub-culture 五种次文化形态we should be fully aware of: (1)ecological culture (2)linguistic culture (3)religious culture (4)material culture (5)social culture.[Nida,1964]16.During the whole 20th century, a great deal of efforts has been taken to treat the inquiry of linguistics as a monistic一元观or autonomous pursuit自治性of an independent science.Chapter 817. This kind of meaning is sometimes referred to as speaker’s meaning, utterance meaning, or contextual meaning.18.Semantic VS Pragmatics, the difference iscontext.二、名词解释Chapter 51.Semantics语义学is the stutyof the meaning of linguistic units,words and sentences in particular.2.The referential theory指称论: The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the Referential theory.3.Concept概念:There is something behind the concrete thing we can see with our eyes. And that something is abstract, which has no existence in the material word and can be sensed in our minds. This abstract thing is usually called concept.4.The semantic triangle语义三角:The relation between a word and a thing it refers to is no direct. It is mediated by concept.5.Sense涵义:In contrast to reference, sense may be defined as t:he semantic relations between one word and another, or more generally between one linguistic unit and another. It is concerned with the intralinguistic relations.6.Reference指称: Reference is concerned with the relation between a word and the thing it refers to, or more generally between a linguistic unit and a non-linguistic entity it refers to.7.Synonymy同义关系:Synonymy is the technical name for one of the sense relations between linguistic units, namely the sameness relation.8.gradable antonymy等级反义关系:Gradable antonymy is the sense relation between two antonymyswhich differ in terms of degree. There is an intermediate ground between the two. The denial of one is not necessarily the assertion of the other. Something which is not “good” is not necessarily “bad”. If may Simply be “so-so” or “average”.positionality组合原则: Compositionality refers to the principles that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they are combined.10.Sentence meaning句子意义: This ia an area where word meaning and sentence structure come together.Chapter 611.Cognition认知:In psychology it is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that the mind has internal mental states such as beliefs, desires and intentions. Another definition of “cognition” is the mental process or faculty of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.12.Cognitive linguistics认知语言学: is the scientific study of the relation between the way we communicate and the way we think.13.Psychological心理语言学:is the study of psychological aspects of language, it usually studies the psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language.nguage acquisition语言习得:is one of the central topics in psycholinguistics.How does a child acquire the language skills (first language) and how are they extended to other languages (second/foreign language acquisition)?15.Connectionism in psychological连通主义: claims that readers use the same system of links between spelling units and sound units to generate the pronunciations of written words like tove and to access the pronunciations of familiar words like stove, or words that are exceptions to these patterns, like love.16.Construal识解: is the ability to conceive and portray the same situation in alternate ways through specificity, different mental scanning, directionality, vantage point, figure-ground segregation etc.17.Categorization范畴化: is the process of classifying our experiences into different categories based on commonalities and differences.18. Metaphor隐喻:involves the comparison of two concepts in that one is construed in terms of the other. It’s often described in terms of a target domain and a source domain. The target domain is the experience being described by the metaphor and the source domain is the means that we used in order to describe the experience.Chapter 719.Anthropological orientation人类学转向: in the study of language was developed both in England and in North America. What characterized this new tradition was its study of language in a sociocultural context.20.Anthropological study of Linguistics人类语言学:aims to look at the relationships between language and culture in a speech community. For this reason, it can alternatively be called anthropological linguistics. More specifically, practitioners of the field want to know more about a given community by examining the correlation between the tradition of the community, beliefs, and social behavior of community members and their language used in different contextsof communication.21.Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis萨丕尔—沃尔夫假说: is a theoretic assumption which suggests that our language helps mould our way of thinking and consequently, different languages may probably express speakers’ unique ways of understanding the word. In a loose sense, this termcan be interchangeably used with linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism.22.Linguistic determinism语言决定论:is a theory which believes that our language will influence or decide our way of looking at the world. In a loose sense, linguistic determinism, linguistic relativity, and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis can be regarded as synonyms.23.The strong version强势说of the theory refers to the claim the original hypothesis makes, emphasizing the decisive role of language as the shaper of our thinking patterns.24.The weak version弱势说of this hypothesis, is a modified type of its original theory, suggesting that there is a correlation between language,culture,and thought, but the cross-cultural differences thus produced in our ways of thinking are relative, rather than categorical.25.Socilinguistics社会语言学: as an interdisciplinary study of language use, attempts to show the relationships between language and social. It examines issuesrelated to the subject from a more linguistic perspective and hence, is complementary with the Sociolinguistics of Society in terms of its coverage and concerns. Also it is a study of sociolinguistic issues at a macro level of discussion. Chapter 826.Pragmatics语用学: is the study of language in use or context.(对语境中语言运用的研究)27.conversational implicature会话含义:This is a type of implied meaning, which is deduced on basis of the conventional meaning of words together with the context, under the guidance of the CP and its maxims. In this sense, implicature is comparable to illocutionary force in speech act theory in that they are both concerned with the contextual side of meaning, or言外之意in Chinese.28.Performatives施为句: is a sentence like ” I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth”, which does not describe thing and cannot be said to be true or false. The uttering of these sentences is, or is a part of, the doing of an action. So they are called performatives. And verbs like name are called performative verbs.29.Constative s表述句:In contrast to performative, sentences like “I pour some liquid into the tube”is a description of what the speaker is doing at the time of speaking. The speaker cannot pour any liquid into a tube by simply uttering these words. He must accompany his words with the actual pouring. Otherwise one can accuse him of making a false statement. Sentence of this type are known as constatives.30.Relevance theory关联理论:the theory was formally proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in their book Relevance: Communication and Cognition in 1986. They argue that all Griceanmaxims, including the CP itself, should be reduced to a single principle of relevance, which is defined as:Every act of ostensive communication communicates the presumption of its own optimal relevance.31.locutionary act 发话行为: is the ordinary act we perform when we speak, i.e. we move our vocal organs and produce a number of sounds, organized in a certain way and with a certain meaning. For example, when somebody says “morning!”, we could say he produced a sound, word, or sentence—“morning!”32.Perlocutionary act取效行为,言后行为: it concerns the consequential effects of a locution upon the hearer. By telling somebody something the speaker may change the opinion of the header on something, or mislead him, or surprise him, or induce him to do something, etc. Whether or not these effects are intended by the speaker, they can be regarded as part of the act that the speaker has performed.三、问答题Chapter 51.G.Leech- 7 types of meaning:①Conceptual meaning概念意义: Logical, cognitive or denotative content.②Connotative meaning内涵意义: what is communicated by virtue of what language refers to.③Social meaning社会意义: what is communicated of the social circumstances of language use.④Affective meaning感情意义: what is communicated of the feelings andattitudes of the speaker/writer.⑤Reflective meaning反映意义: what is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression.⑥Collocative meaning搭配意义: what is communicated through association with words which tend to occur in the environment of other word.⑦Thematic meaning主题意义: what is communicated bu the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis.2. Sense和Reference的区别:①The distinction between “sense” and “reference” is comparable to that between “connotation” and “denotation”. The former refers to the abstract properties of an entity, while the latter refers to the concrete entities having these properties.②To some extent, we can say every word has a sense, but not every word has a reference.3.Gradable antonymy等级反义关系:(1).First, as the name suggests, they are Gradable.(2)Second,antonymy of this kind are graded against different norms. There is no absolute criterion by which we may say something is good or bad, long or short, big or small. The criterion varies with the object described.(3)Third, one number of a pair, usually the term for the higher degree, serves as the cover term.Chapter 64.Psychological in vestigates the six following subjects心理语言学被分为六个方向:(1)language acquisition(2)language comprehension(3)language production (4)language disorders(5)language and thought(6)and cognitive architecture of language.The most important research subjects are acquisition, comprehension and production.Chapter 85.utterance 和sentence的区别:(1).utterance meaning: it is context-dependent. It is the product of sentence meaning and context. Therefore, it is richer than the meaning of the sentence.(2)sentence meaning: it is the abstract context-dependent entity called semantic proposition.6.Characteristics of Implicature会话含义的特征:(1)calculability (2)cancelability(3)non-detachability (4)non-conventionality6.The cooperative principle合作原则的四准则:(1)quantity:A. make your contribution as informative as is requiredB.do not make your contribution more informative than is required.(2)quality: try to make your contribution one that is true.A. do not say what you believe to be false.B.do not day that for which you lack adequate evidence.(3)relation: be relevant(4)manner: be perspicuousA. avoid obscurity of expressionB. avoid ambiguityC. be brief( avoid prolixity)D. be orderly。

语言学复习资料1-5.doc

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语言学复习资料1-5.docReview of LinguisticsChapter 1一、What is linguistics?什么是语言学?Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. It studies not any particular language, but languages in general.二、The scope of linguistics语言学的研究范畴1)The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics. (普通语言学)2)The study of sounds, which are used in linguistic communication, is called phonetics. (语音学)3)The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology.(音系学)4)The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words are calledmorphology. (形态学)5)The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax.(句法学)6)The study of meaning in language is called semantics. (语义学)7)The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics. (语用学)8)The study of language with reference to society is calledsocio-linguistics. (社会语言学)9)The study of language with reference to the working of mind is called psycho-linguistics.(心理语言学)10)The study of applications (as the recovery of speech ability) is generally known as a ppliedlinguistics. (应用语言学)But in a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second languages.三、Some important distinctions in linguistics语言学研究中的几对基本概念1)Prescriptive and descriptive (规定与描写)If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the language people actually use, it is said to be descriptive, if it aims to lay down rules to tell people what they should say and what they should not say, it is said to be prescriptive.2)Traditional grammar and modern linguistics (传统语法和现代语言学)Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar.a)Traditional grammar is prescriptive while modern linguistics is descriptive.b)Modern linguistics reards the spoken language as primary. Traditional grammarianstended to emphasize the importance of the written word.c)Modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar also in that it does not forcelanguages into a Latin-based framework.3)Synchronic and diachronic (共时和历时)The description of a language at some point in time is asynchronic study; the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study. In modern linguistics, synchronic study is more important.4)Speech and writing (口头语与书面语)Speech and writing are the two major media of communication. Modern linguistics regards the spoken form of language as primary, but not the written form. Reasons are: 1. Speech precedes writing; 2. There are still many languages that have only the spoken form; 3. In terms of function, the spoken language is used for a wider range of purposes than the written, and carries a larger load of communication than the written.5)Langue and parole (语言和言语)The Swiss linguist F. de Saussure made the distinction between langue and parole early 20th century.Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and parole refers to the realization of langue in actual use. Saussure made the distinction in order to single out one aspect of language for serious study. He believes what linguists should do is to abstract langue from parole, to discover the regularities governing the actual use of language and make them the subjects of study of linguistics.6)Competence and performance (语言能力和语言运用)Proposed by American linguist N. Chomsky in the late 1950’s.He defines competence as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language, and performance the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication. He believes the task of the linguists is to discover and specify the language rules.四、What is language?什么是语言Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.五、Design features of languageDefinition: Design features refer to the defining properties human language thatdistinguish it from any animal system of communication.1)Arbitrariness(任意性)Arbitrariness means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds.2)Example: different sounds are used to refer to the same object in different languages.3)Productivity(创造性)Language is productive or creative in that it makes possible the construction andinterpretation of new signals by its users.4)Duality(双重性)(sounds – words- phrases- sentences)The duality nature of language means that language is a system, which consists of two setsof structure, or two levels, one is sound and the other of meanings.5)Displacement(移位性)Displacement means that language can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places.6)Cultural transmission 语言的文化传递性While human capacity for language has a genetic basis. we were born with the ability to acquire language, the details of any language are not genetically transmitted, but instead have to be taught and learned anew. This indicates that language is culturally transmitted. It is passed down from one generation tothe next through teaching and learning, rather than by instinct.六、Functions of languageThree main functions of language:1)The descriptive functionThe descriptive function, also referred to differently as the cognitive, or referential, or propositional function, is assumed to be the primary function of language. It is the function to convey factual information, which can be asserted or denied, and in some cases even verified.2)The expressive functionThe expressive function, also called the emotive or attitudinal function, supplies information about the user’s feelings, preferences, prejudices, and values.3)The social functionSocial function, also referred to as the interpersonal function, serves to establish and maintain social relations between people.七、The sis elements identified and specified by the Russian-born structural linguistRoman Jakobson1)Addresser(发话人)——Emotive (情感、态度)The addresser expresses his attitude to the topic or situation of communication. (I hate whatever they are planning for me.)2)Addressee(受话人) ——Conative (意动、带有目的性)The addresser aims to influence the addressee’s course of action or ways of thinking. (Why not go and see another doctor?)3)Context(语境) ——Referential(所指、信息传递)The addresser conveys a message or information. ( As are asI know, the earth’s resources are being Astonishingly wasted.)4)Message(诗意) ——Poetic(语言艺术)The addresser uses language for the sole purpose ofdisplaying the beauty of language itself. ( just like poetry)5)Contact(寒暄) ——Phatic comm.union (建立良好人际关系)The addresser tries to establish or maintain good interpersonal relationships with the addressee. ( Hi! How are you this morning?)6)Code(元语) ——Metalinguistic (用语言谈论语言)The addresser uses language to make clear the meaning of language itself.( Let me tell you what the word ―anorexia‖ means.)八、In the early 1970s the British linguist M.A.K. Halliday put forward a systemcontains three macrofunctions1)The ideational(概念) is to organize the speaker or writer’s experience of the real orimaginary world.2)The interpersonal(人际)is to indicate, establish, or maintain social relationshipsbetween people.3)The textual(语篇)is to organize written or spoken texts in such a manner that they arecoherent within themselves and fit the particular situation in which they are used.Chapter 2 Phonology一 2.1 The phonic medium of language(语言的声音媒介)Definition: This limited range of sounds which are meaningful in human communication and are of interest to linguistic are the phonic medium of language; and the individual sounds within this range are the speech sounds二Phonetics(语音学)(一)What is phonetics? 什么是语音学Phonetics is defined as the study of the phonic medium oflanguage; it is concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world’s languages.语音学研究的对象是语言的声音媒介,即人类语言中使用的全部语音。

英语语言学复习资料

英语语言学复习资料

英语语言学复习资料英语语言学复习资料英语语言学是英语语言文学专业培养计划中的一门基础必修课,其重要性不言而喻。

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一、定义1.语言学LinguisticsLinguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language.2.普通语言学General LinguisticsThe study of language as a whole is often called General linguistics.3.语言languageLanguage is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.语言是人类用来交际的任意性的有声符号体系。

4.识别特征Design FeaturesIt refers to the defining poperties of human language that distinguish it from any animal system of communication.语言识别特征是指人类语言区别与其他任何动物的交际体系的限定性特征。

Arbitrariness任意性Productivity多产性Duality双重性Displacement移位性Cultural transmission文化传递⑴arbitrarinessThere is no logical connection between meanings and sounds.P.S the arbitrary nature of language is a sign of sophistication and it makes it possible for language to have an unlimited source of expressions⑵ProductivityAnimals are quite limited in the messages they are able to send.⑶D ualityLanguage is a system, which consists of two sets of structures ,or two levels.⑷DisplacementLanguage can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker.⑸Cultural transmissionHuman capacity for language has a genetic basis, but we have to be taught and learned the details of any language system. this showed that language is culturally transmitted. not by instinct. animals are born with the capacity to produce the set of calls peculiar to their species.5.语言能力CompetenceCompetence is the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language.6.语言运用performancePerformance is the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.语言运用是所掌握的规则在语言交际中的'体现。

(完整word版)英语语言学 整理资料名词+简答

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第一章、绪论Introduction1、语言学的主要分支是什么。

每个分支的研究对象是什么?Linguistics mainly involves the following branches:General linguistics, which is the study of language as a whole and which deals with the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicablein any linguistic studyPhonetics, which studies the sounds that are used in linguistic communicationPhonology,which studies how sounds are put together and used in communicationMorphology, which studies the way in which morphemes are arranged to form wordsSyntax, which studies how morphemes and words are combined to form sentencesSemantics, which is the study of meaning in language.Pragmatics, which is the study of meaning not in isolation, but in context of useSociolinguistics, which is the study of language with reference to societyPsycholinguistics, which is the study of language with reference to the workings of mind.Applied linguistics, which is concerned about the application of linguistic findings in linguistic studies; In a narrow sense, applied linguistics refers to the application of linguistic principles and theories to language teaching and learning, especially the teaching of foreign and second languages.Other related branches are anthropological linguistics, neurological inguistics, mathematical linguistics, and computational linguistics.2、现代语言学Modern linguistics与传统语法Traditional grammar 有什么区别?Traditional grammar is prescriptive; it is based on "high "(religious, literary) written language. It sets models for language users to follow. But Modern linguistics is descriptive; its investigations are based on authentic, and mainly spoken language data. It is supposed to be scientific and objective and the task of linguists is supposed to describe the language people actually use, whether it is "correct" or not.3、什么叫共时研究?什么叫历时研究?The description of a language at some point in time is a Synchronic study (共时研究); the description of a language as it changes through time is a diachronic study(历时研究). A synchronic study of language describes a language as it is at some particular point in rime, while a diachronic study of language is a historical study; it studies the historical development of language over a period of time.4、人类语言的甄别性特征是什么?1) Arbitrariness 。

英语语言学复习资料

英语语言学复习资料

英语语言学复习资料注: 1.试题类型为选择题,填空题,语料分析题和问答题.2.未标习题的章节为一般了解.Chapter 1Language and Linguistics: An Overview1.1 What is language?1.2 Features of human languages(i) Creativity (or productivity)Productivity is the first and foremost striking feature of human language._________ is the first and foremost striking feature of human language.A. DualityB. ArbitrarinessC. CreativityD. Displacement(ii) Duality( ) Language contains two subsystems, one of speaking and the other of writing. (iii) Arbitrariness( ) The Swiss linguist de Saussure regarded the linguistic sign as composed of sound image and referent.(iv) Displacement( ) Modern linguistics is prescriptive rather than descriptive.( ) Language can be used to refer to things real or imagined, past, present or future.(v) Cultural transmission(vi) Interchangeability(vii) Reflexivity1.3 Functions of language(i) The ideational function(ii) The interpersonal function(iii) The textual functionWhich of the following does not belong to the language metafunctions illustrated byM.A.K. Halliday?A.Ideational functionB. Interpersonal functionC.Textual function. D. Logical function1.4 Types of language( ) Chinese is an agglutinating language.1.5 The myth of language: language origin1.6 Linguistics: the scientific study of language1.6.1 Linguistics as a science1.6.2 Branches of linguistics(i) Intra-disciplinary divisions(ii) Inter-disciplinary divisions1.6.3 Features of modern linguisticsChapter 2 Phonetics: The Study of Speech Sounds2.1 The study of speech soundsThe study of speech sounds is called ________.A. PhoneticsB. Articulatory phoneticsC. PhonologyD. Acoustic Phonetics2.2 The sound-producing mechanism2.3 Phonetic transcription of speech sounds2.3.1 Unit of representation2.3.2 Phonetic symbols2.4 Description of English consonants2.5 Description of English vowels( ) Not all vowels are voiced.2.6 Phonetic features and natural classesI. Write the phonetic symbol that corresponds to the articulatory description. (10%) Example: vowel front high [i:]1.bilabial nasal2.voiced labiovelar glide3.literal liquid4.voiced bilabial stop5.front high laxII. Transcribe the sound represented by the underlined letter(s) in the words and then describe it. (10%)Example: heat [i:] vowel front high1.write2.actor3.city4.worry1.yesChapter 3 Phonology: The Study of Sound Systems and Patterns3.1 The study of sound systems and patterns( ) The study of speech sounds is called Phonology.3.2 Phonemes and allophones3.3 Discovering phonemes3.3.1 Contrastive distributionSip and zip, tip and dip, map and nap, etc, are all ______.A. minimal pairsB. minimal setsC. allophonesD. phomes3.3.2 Complimentary distribution( ) The voiceless bilabial stop in pin and the one in spin are in complementary distribution.Pronounce the words key and core, ski and score, paying attention to the phoneme /k/. What difference do you notice between the first pair and the second pair in terms of the phonetic features of the voiceless velar stop? (10%)3.3.3 Free Variation( ) If segments appear in the same position but the mutual substitution does not result in change of meaning, they are said to be in free variation.3.3.4 The discovery procedure3.4 Distinctive features and non-distinctive features3.5 Phonological rules3.6 Syllable structureEvery syllable has a(n) _______, which is usually a vowel.A. onsetB. nucleusC. codaD. rhyme3.7 Sequence of phonemes3.8 Features above segments3.8.1 Stress3.8.2 Intonation3.8.3 Tone( ) Tone is the variation of pitch to distinguish utterance meaning.Which of the following does not belong to suprasegmental features?B.Stress B. IntonationC. ToneD. Syllable3.8.4 The functioning of stress and intonation in EnglishI.How would you read the phrases in the two columns? What does each of them mean? (10%)Column I Column IIa. a bluebird a blue birdb. a lighthouse keeper a light housekeeperII.Explain the ambiguity of the following sentences. (10%)1. Those who went there quickly made a fortune.2. A woman murdererChapter 4 Morphology: The Study of Word Structure4.1 Words and word structure1.________ is defined as the study of the internal structure and the formation of words.A. MorphologyB. SyntaxC. LexiconD. Morpheme4.2 Morpheme: the minimal meaningful unit of language4.3 Classification of morphemes4.3.1 Free and bound morphemes( ) In the phrases a herd of cattle, a flock of sheep, both cattle and sheep contain only onemorpheme.In the phrases a herd of cattle, a flock of sheep, both cattle and sheep contain _____ morphemes.A. oneB. twoC. threeD. four4.3.2. Inflectional and derivational morphemes4.4 Formation of English words4.4.1 Derivation4.4.2 Compounding( ) The meaning of compounds is always the sum of meaning of the compounds. ( ) A greenbottle is a type of bottle.( ) Compounding, the combination of free morphemes, is a common way to form words.4.4.3 Other types of English word formationTell the process of word formation illustrated by the example and find as many words as you can that are formed in the same way. (10%)a) flub) OPECc) Nobeld)televisee) better (v.)_____ is a process that puts an existing word of one class into another class.A. ClippingB. BlendingC. EponymD. ConversionChapter 5 Syntax: the Analysis of Sentence Structure5.1 Grammaticality5.2 Knowledge of sentence structure5.3 Different approaches to syntax5.4 Transformational-generative grammar5.4.1 The goal of a TG grammar5.4.2 Syntactic categories5.4.3 Phrase structure rules5.4.4 Tree diagramsDraw two tree diagrams of the following ambiguous sentence. (10%)Pat found a book on Wall Street.5.4.5 Recursion and the infinitude of language5.4.6 Subcategorization of the lexicon5.4.7 Transformational rules5.5 Systemic-functional grammar5.5.1 Two perspectives of syntactic analysis: chain and choice5.5.2 The three metafunctions5.5.3 Transitivity: syntactic structure as representation of experienceMaterial processesRelational processesMental processesVerbal processesBehavioral processesExistential processesIdentify the type of transitivity process in each of the following sentences. (10%)1. John washed the car.2. John likes the car.5.5.4 Mood and modality: syntactic structure as representation of interaction5.5.5 Theme and rheme: syntactic structure as organization of message Chapter 6 Semantics: the Analysis of Meaning6.1 The study of meaning6.2 Reference and sense6.2.1 Reference6.2.2 Sense6.3 Classification of lexical meaningsBoth pretty and handsome mean good-looking but they differ in ________ meaning.A. collocativeB. socialC. affectiveD. reflected6.3.1 Referential meaning and associative meaning6.3.2 Types of associative meaning6.4 Lexical sense relations6.4.1 Synonymy6.4.2 Antonymy6.4.3 Homonymy6.4.4 Polysemy6.4.5 HyponymyExplain the relation between bank1(the side of a river) and bank2(the financial institute). (5%)6.5. Describing lexical meaning: componential analysis6.6 Words and concepts6.6.1 Categorization6.6.2 Prototypes6.6.3 Hierarchies6.7 Semantic relations of sentencesTell the semantic relation within the given sentence and that between the two sentences.(15%)a)My uncle is male.b)The spinster is married.c)Jim is an orphan. Jim lives with his parents.d)Sam is the husband of Sally. Sally is the wife of Sam.e)He has gone to London. He has gone to England.6.8 Metaphors6.8.1 From rhetorical device to cognitive device6.8.2 The components of metaphors6.8.3 Features of metaphorsChapter 7 Pragmatics: Analysis of Meaning in Context7.1 The pragmatic analysis of meaning7.2 Deixis and reference7.3 Speech ActsWhat are the three dimensions that a speech act consists of?7.4 Cooperation and implicatureWhat are the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle?7.5 The politeness principle7.6 The principle of relevance7.7 Conversational structure______ refers to having the right to speak by turns.A.Adjacency pairs B. Turn-talkingC.Preferred second parts D. Insertion sequencesChapter 8 Language in Social Contexts8.1 Sociolinguistic study of languageHow do sociolinguists classify the varieties of English?8.2 Varieties of a language1. ______ is a term widely used in sociolinguistics to refer to “varieties according to use.”A. RegisterB. FieldC. ModeD. Tenor2. British English and American English are ______ varieties of the English language.A. functionalB. socialC. regionalD. standard8.3 Grades of formality8.4 Languages in contactHow do you distinguish pidgin from Creole?8.5 Taboos and euphemisms8.6 Language and culture8.7. Communicative competenceChapter 9 Second Language Acquisition9.1 What is second language acquisition?In _____ stage, children use single words to represent various meanings.A. telegraphicB. two-wordC. holophrasticD. babbling9.2 Factors affecting SLA9.3 Analyzing learners' language_____ is the approximate language system that the learner constructs for use in communication through the target language.A. MetalanguageB. InterlanguageC. SignD. Esperanto9.4 Explaining second language acquisitionChapter 10 Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching10.1 Foreign language teaching as a system10.2 Contribution of linguistics: applications and implications10.3 Linguistic underpinning of syllabus design10.4 Method as integration of theory and practice10.5 Linguistics in the professional development of language teachers[文档可能无法思考全面,请浏览后下载,另外祝您生活愉快,工作顺利,万事如意!]。

英语专业第二学期语音复习资料整理

英语专业第二学期语音复习资料整理

综合复习1.元音元音的分类Cardinal vowels indicate the range of human vocal organs can make.It offers the ways of describing , classifying and comparing vowels.V owels: Monophthongs (12) Diphthongs (8)Monophthong: 1. The height of the raised part of the tongue:Close, half-close, half-open, open2. The part of tongue raised: front, central, back3. The length of the vowel: long, short4. The position of the lips: rounded, unrounded5. The degree of tenseness: tense, laxDiphthongs:Closing diphthongs /Centring diphthongs2.每一个单元音的语音特征(前中后、合闭口,圆唇,紧张松弛,长短)[i:]: long, close, front, unrounded, tense[i]: short, half-close, front, unrounded, lax[e]: short, half-open, unrounded, front, lax[æ ]: short, open, unrounded, front, lax[a:]: long, back, unrounded, tense, open[ɔ]: short, open, rounded, back[ɔ:]: long, half-open, rounded, back[u]: short, half-close, rounded, lax, back[u:]: long, close, rounded, tense, back[ә ]: short, half-open, unrounded, central[ә:]: long, half-close and half-open, unrounded, tense, central[Λ]: short, half-open, unrounded, lax, central前元音( Front vowels ) / i: /, / i /, / e /, / æ /后元音( Back vowels ) / ɑ: /, / ɔ /, / ɔ:/, / u /, / u: /,中元音( Central vowels ) / ә: / , / ә /,/ Λ /Closing diphthongsDiphthongs /au/, /әu / /ai/ /ɔi/ /ei/,Centring diphthongs/ i ә /, / εә /, / uә3.每一个元音在舌位图上的位置4.同化现象定义分类特点规律Assimilation: In connected speech, under the influence of the neighbors, sounds are replaced by another sound. Sometimes two neighboring sounds influence each other and are replaced by a third sound which is different from both the original sounds. It is called assimilation.---c f / c i ---if c f changes into c i , c i effects c f –Regressive assimilationif c i changes to c f , c f effects c i–Progressive assimilationThe two sounds influence each other, and then form a new one. —coalescent, double, reciprocal assimilationSound changes in connected speech1) liaison2) incomplete plosion3) strong and weak forms of wordsUnder the influence of the neighbor sounds, one sound changes to another.eg. news papernewspaper [nju:speip ]As the result of the neighboring sounds, there forms a new sound which is different from the original two.eg. miss you[s ]+[j]----[ ]Directions---cf / ci ---if cf changes into ci ,ci effects cfRegressive assimilation 逆同化used [d] [t] toused[t t] toif ci changes to cf , cf effects ci---cf / ci ---Progressive assimilation 顺同化the two sounds influence each other, and then form a new one. ----coalescent, double, reciprocalpicture situationlast year, next yearI’m glade to meet you./t/+/j/---/t /education ,schedulewould you, could you/d/+/j/---/d /Types of assimilationA. voiced voicelesshave /v/ /t/ to have to /haf tu/B. [n] [m] ten[tem `minits] minutes[t] [p] right place [raip pleis][d] [b] good-bye[gub bai]c. [s]+[j]–this year[z]+[j]–where’s yours/t/+/j/---/t //d/+/j/---/d /5. 省音现象:定义、分类、规律Elision is the omission of a sound or sounds.a. In one word, a sound can be omitted. (factory)b. At a junction of words under the influence of the context, some sounds willdisappear. lots o(f) moneyhistorical elision and contextual elisionTypes of elisionHistorical elision (稳定的省音)history [`hist ri]—[`histri]Loss of vowelsA extraordinaryE every interest studentI medicine businessO victory buttonU build [bild]B bomb doubt climbD handsome handkerchiefG assign foreignH ghost rhythmK knee knifel half talkN damn autumnS island viscountT catch fastenContextual elisionloss of vowel after [ p t k ]potato [p `teit u]—[p`teit u]today [t `dei]—---[t`dei]The aspiration of the initial plosive will take up the whole part of the syllable. loss of final [v] in “of ”before consonantlots of money3 plosives / 2 plosives+1 fricativethe middle sound will disappear.Looked back[luk tb k ]==[ lukb k] (3 plosives)Scripts [scripts]==[skrips] (2p+1f)从发音原理上来讲,省音分为:1)不完全爆破引起的省音but not every week [b Λ(t)n ɔt]2) 叠合引起的省音want to It`s strange.3)缩写引起的省音she doesn`t we`d prefer4)弱读引起的省音bread and butter give her5)发音相近的音引起的省音Is this [i(z) ð is]6.重音词汇重音、定义、分类、音节、音节的分类、划分音节、重音规律句子重音Stress: the degree of force with which a sound or a syllable is uttered.Word stress is concerned with the stressing of individual words of two or more syllables when they are pronounced in isolation.1.Primary (strongest)2. secondary(weaker)3.unstress(weakest)Sentence stress refers to the stress that falls on certain word or words semantically important in a sentence.The term primary stress refers to the strong emphasis a speaker puts on the most important syllable of a particular word.Secondary stress refers to a less strong emphasis on the next most important syllable.Zero stress refers to any syllable that receives no stress, and it is also called unstressed syllable. In other words, an unstressed syllable receives no intensity or loudness at all. The frequent occurrence of unstressed syllable is one of the fundamental characteristics of spoken English, and the one that most distinguishes English from Chinese.The loudest sound[au] can be heard clearly.In a stressed syllable ,the center which is a vowel should be produced in a loudest way. (重读发生在重读音节的元音之上)When a syllable is stressed, it is pronouncedlonger in durationhigher in pitchlouder in volumeSo, when you say a word more than one syllable, remember to make the stressed syllable(vowel sound)louder, longer, clearer, and higher pitched. Open s–ends at a vowel sound CV绝对开音节:以发音的元音字母结尾的音节be,he相对开音节:以辅音字母(r 除外)+不发音的e结尾的音节make,like 不论是绝对开音节还是相对开音节, 读音的规则就是发其中元音字母的名称音。

英语语言学复习资料(名词解释)

英语语言学复习资料(名词解释)

英语语言学复习资料(名词解释)1 language: language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.1 interlanguage:The type of language produced by nonnative speakers in the process of learning a second language or foreign language.1 Linguistics : Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language2 Phonetics : The study of sounds which are used in linguistics communication is called phonetics.For example,vowels and consonants3 Phonology” : The study of how sounds are put togeth er and used in communication is called phonology.For example,phone,phoneme,and allophone.4 Morphology 形态学:The study of the way in which morphemes are arranged to form words is called morphology.For example,boy and “ish”---boyish,teach---teacher.5 Syntax 句型: The study of how morphemes and words are combined to form sentences is called syntax.For esample,”John like linguistics.”6 Semantics语义学: The study of meaning in language is called semantics. For example,:The seal could not be found.The zoo keeper became worried.” The seal could not be found,The king became worried.”Here the word seal means different things.7 Pragmatics语用学: The study of meaning in context of use is called pragmatics.For example, “I do” The word do means different context.二音系学1 Phonetics: The study of sounds that are used in linguistic communication is called phonetics.2 Phonology: The study of how sounds are put together and used in communication is called phonology.3 Phone: Phone can be simply defined as the speech sounds we use when speaking a language. A phone is a phonetic unit or segement. It does not necessarily distin guish meaning; some do,some don’t.4 Phoneme音素: Phonology is concerned with the speech sounds which distinguish meaning. The basic unit in phonology is called phoneme;it is a unit that is of distinctive value.5 allophone同位音: The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environment are called the allophones of that phoneme.6 Complementary distribution: These two allophones of the same phoneme are said to be in complementary distribution.7 Minimal pair: When two different forms are identical in every way except for one sound segement which occurs in the same place in thestings, the two words are said to form a minimal pair.10 intonation朗诵: When pitch, stress and sound length are tied to the sentence rather than the word in isolation, they are collectively known as intonation. Intonation plays an important role in conveying meaning in almost every language,especially in a language like English{$isbest} 三形态学1 morphology: Morphology is a branch of grammer which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.2 inflectional morphology: Inflectional morphology studies the inflections of word-formation.3 derivational morphology: Derivational morphology is the study of word-formation.4 morpheme词素: Morpheme is the smallest meaningful unit of language.5 free morpheme: Free morpheme are the morphemes which are independent units of meaning and can be used freely all by themselces or in combination with other morphemes.6 bound morpheme: Bound morphemes are the morphemes which cannot be used independently but have to be combined with other morphemes, either free or bound, to form a word.7 root: A root is often seen as part of a word; it can never stand by itself although it bears clear,definite meaning; it must be combined withanother root or an affix to form a word.8 affix: Affixes are of two types: inflectional and derivational.9 prefix: Prefix occur at the beginning of a word.10 suffix: Suffixes are added to the end of the stems; they modify the meaning of the original word and in many cases change its part of speech.11 derivation: Derivation affixes are added to an existing form to creat a word.Derivation can be viewed as the adding of affixes to stem to form nes words.12 compounding: Like derivation, compounding is another popular and important way of forming new words in English. Compounding can be viewed as the combination of two or sometimes more than two words to creat new words.四句法学1 linguistic competence: Comsky defines competence as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language,and performance the actual realization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.2 sentence : A sentence is a structurally independent unit that usually comprises a number of words to form a complete statement question or command.3 transformation rules: Syntactic movement is governed by transformational rules. The operation of the transformational rules may change the syntactic representation of a sentence.4 D-structure : A sentence may have two levels of syntactic representation. One exists before movement take place, the other occurs after movement take place. In formal linguistic exploration, these two syntactic representation are commonly termed as D-structure.五语义学1 semantics: Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning in language.2 sense : Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form. It is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form; it is abstract and decontextualized.3 reference : Reference means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world; it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and the non-linguistic world of experience.4 synonymy 同义词: Synonymy refers to the sameness or close similarity of meaning. Words that are close in meaning are called synonymy.5 polysemy一词多义: Polysemy refers to the fact that the same one word may have more than one meaning.A word having more than one meaning is called a polysemic word.6 antonymy : Antonymy refers to the oppositeness of meaning. Words that are opposite in meaning are called antonyms.7 homonymy : Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that wordshaving different meanings have the same form,i.e. different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.8 hyponymy : Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word.9 componential analysis : Componential analysis is a way to analyze wprd meaning. It was proposed by structural semanticists.10 grammatical meaning : The grammatical meaning of a sentence refers to its grammaticality,i.e. its grammatical well-formedness. The grammaticality of asentence is governed by the grammatical rules of the language.11 semantic meaning : The semantic meaning of a sentence is governed by rules called selectional restrictions.12 predication : In semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is called predication. The predication is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.{$isbest}六语用学1 pragmatics词的活用: Pragmatics can be defined as the study of how speakers of a language use sentences to effect successful communication.2 context: The notion of context is essential to the pragmatic study of language. Generally speaking, it consists of the knowledge that isshared by the speaker and the hearer.3 utterance meaning: Utterance is based on sentence meaning; it is realization of the abstract meaning of a sentence in a real situation of communication, or simply in a context.4 locutionary act:言内行为A locutionary act is the act of utterance words,phrases,clauses. It is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexion and phonology.5 illocutionary act言外行为: An illocutionary act is the act expressing the speaker’s intention; It is the act performed in saying something.6 perlocutionary act: 言后行为 A illocutionary act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something: it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance; it is the act performed by saying something.十语言习得1 language acquisition: Language acquisition is concerned with language development in humans. In general, language acquisition refers to children’s development of their first language, t hat is, the native language of the community in which a child has been brought up.4 acquisition: According to Krashen,acquisition refers to the gradual and subconscious development of ability in the first language by using it naturally in daily communicative situations.。

大学英语语言学复习资料

大学英语语言学复习资料

Chapter 11.The main features of human languageare termed design features. They include: 1) ArbitrarinessLanguage is arbitrary. This means that there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. A good example is the fact that different sounds are used to refer to the same object in different languages.2) ProductivityLanguage is productive or creative in that it makes possible the construction and interpretation of new signals by its users. This is why they can produce and understand an infinitely large number of sentences, including sentences they have never heard before.3) DualityLanguage consists of two sets of structures, or two levels. At the lower or the basic level there is a structure of sounds, which are meaningless by themselves. But the sounds of language can be grouped and regrouped into a large number of units of meaning, which are found at the higher level of the system.4) DisplacementLanguage can be used to refer to things which are present or not present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places. In other words, language can be used to refer to contexts removed from the immediate situations of the speaker. This is what"displacement" means.5) Cultural transmissionWhile human capacity for language has a genetic basis, i.e., we were all born with the ability to acquire language, the details of any language system are not genetically transmitted, but instead have to be taught and learned.2.The major functions of language:Three main functions are often recognized of language: the descriptive function,the expressive function, and the social function.The descriptive function is the function to convey factual information, which can be asserted or denied, and in some cases even verified. For example: “China is a large country with a long history.”The expressive function, also called the emotive or attitudinal function, supplies information about the user's feelings, preferences, prejudices, and values. For example: “I will never go window-shopping with her.”The social function, also referred to as the interpersonal function, serves to establish and maintain social relations between people. For example: "We are your firm supporters."Chapter 21.How do phonetics and phonology differ in their focus of study? Who do you think will be more interested in the difference between, say, [l] and [l], [p] and [p], a phonetician or a phonologist? Why?Both phonology and phonetics are concerned with the same aspect of language—the speech sounds. But while both are related to the study of sounds, they differ in their approach and focus. Phonetics is of a general nature; it is interested in all the speech sounds used in all human languages: how they are produced, how they differ from each other,what phonetic features they possess, how they can be classified, etc. Phonology, on the other hand, aims to discover how speech sounds in a language form patterns and how these sounds are used to convey meaning in linguistic communication.2. What is a phone? How is it different from a phoneme? How are allophones related to a phoneme?A phone is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic communication are all phones. A phoneme is not any particularsound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain phonetic context. The different phones which can represent a phoneme in different phonetic environments are called the allophones of that phoneme. For example, the phoneme /l/ in English can be realized as dark [l], clear [l], etc. Which are allophones of the phoneme /l/.3. Explain with examples the sequential rule, the assimilation rule, and the deletion rule.Rules that govern the combination of sounds in a particular language are called sequential rules. There are many such sequential rules in English. For example, if a word begins with a [l] or a [r], then the next sound must be a vowel. That is why [lbik] [lkbi] are impossible combinations in English. They have violated the restrictions on the sequencing of phonemes.The assimilation rule assimilates one sound to another by "copying" a feature of a sequential phoneme, thus making the two phones similar. We all know that nasalization does not distinguish meaning. But this does not mean that vowels in English are never nasalized in actual pronunciation; in fact they are nasalized in certain phonetic contexts. For example, the [i:] sound is nasalized in words like bean, green, team, and scream. This is because in all these sound combinations the [i:] sound is followed by a nasal [n] or [m].The assimilation rule also accounts for the varying pronunciation of the alveolar nasal [n] in some sound combinations. The rule is that within a word, the nasal [n] assumes the same place of articulation as the consonant that follows it. But the [n] sound in the prefix in- is not always pronounced as an alveolar nasal. It is so in the word indiscreet because the consonant that follows it, i.e. [d] is an alveolar stop, but the [n] sound in the word incorrect is actually pronounced as a velar nasal; this is because the consonant that follows it is [k], which is avelar stop. So we can see that while pronouncing the sound [n], we are, so to speak, "copying" a featureof the consonant that follows it.Deletion rule tells us when a sound is to be deleted although it is orthographically represented. We have noticed that in the pronunciation of such words as sign, design, and paradigm, there is no [g] sound although it is represented in spelling by the letter g. But in their corresponding forms signature, designation, and paradigmatic, the [g]represented by the letter g is pronounced.The rule can be stated as: Delete a [g] when it occurs before a final nasal consonant. The deletion rule also accounts for the regular deletion of the sound represented by the letter b in words like tomb, comb, and bomb.Chapter 41. What is category? How to determine a word’s category?Category refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb.To determine a word’s category, three criteria are usually employed, namely meaning, inflection and distribution. A word’s distributional facts together with information about its meaning and inflectional capabilities help identify its syntactic category.2. What is coordinate structure and what properties does it have?The structure formed by joining two or more elements of the same type with the help of a conjunction is called coordinate structures.Conjunction exhibits four important properties:1) There is no limit on the number of coordinated categories that can appear prior to the conjunction.2) A category at any level (a head or anentire XP) can be coordinated.3) Coordinated categories must be of the same type.4) The category type of the coordinate phrase is identical to the category type of the elements being conjoined.3. What is deep structure and what is surface structure?There are two levels of syntactic structure.The first, formed by the XP rule in accordance with the head’s subcategorization properties, is called deep structure (or D-structure).The second, corresponding to the final syntactic form of the sentence which results from appropriate transformations, is called surface structure (or S-structure).Chapter 51. Explain with examples “homonymy”, “polysemy”, and “hyponymy”.(1) Homonymy refers to the phenomenon that words having different meanings have the same form, i.e.,different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.When two words are identical in sound, they are homophones.When two words are identical in spelling, they are homographs.When two words are identical in both sound and spelling, they are complete homonyms.(2) While different words may have the same or similar meaning, the same one word may have more than one meaning. This is what we call polysemy, and sucha word is called a polysemic word.(3) Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general, more inclusive word and a more specific word. The word which is more general in meaning is called the superordinate, and the more specific words are called its hyponyms. Hyponyms of the same superordinate are co-hyponyms to each other. Hyponymy is a relation of inclusion; in terms of meaning, the superordinate includes all itshyponyms.2.In what way is componential analysis similar to the analysis of phonemes into distinctive features?They both base on the belief that the meaning of a word can be dissected into meaning components.Chapter 61.What does pragmatics study?How does it differ from traditional semantics? Generally speaking, pragmatics is the study of meaning in the context. It studies meaning in a dynamic way and as aprocess. In order to have a successful communication, the speaker and hearer must take the context into their consideration so as to effect the right meaning and intention.The development and establishment of pragmatics in 1960s and 1970s resulted mainly from the expansion of the study semantics. However, it is different from the traditional semantics. The major difference between them lies in that pragmatics studies meaning in a dynamic way, while semantics studies meaning in a static way. Pragmatics takes context into consideration while semantics does not. Pragmatics takes care of the aspect of meaning that is not accounted for by semantics.2.According to Austin, what are the three acts a person is possibly performing while making an utterance. Give an example.According to Austin's new model, a speaker might be performing three acts simultaneously when speaking: locutionary act, illocutionary act, and perlocutionary act.A locutionary act is the act of uttering words, phrases, clauses. It is the act of conveying literal meaning by means of syntax, lexicon and phonology.An illocutionary act is the act of expressing the speaker's intention; it is the act performed in saying something.A perlocutionary act is the act performed by or resulting from saying something; it is the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance. Let’s look at an example: You have left the door wide open.The locutionary act performed by the speaker is his utterance of the words”you”, “have”, “door”, “open”, etc. Thus expressing what the words literally mean.The illocutionary act performed by the speaker is that by making such an utterance he has expressed his intention of speaking, i.e. asking someone to close the door, or making a complaint, depending on the context.The perlocutionary act refers to the effect of the utterance. If the hearer gets the speaker's message and sees that the speaker means to tell him to close the door, the speaker has successfully brought about the change in the real world he has intended to; then the perlocutionary act is successfully performed.3. What are the five types of illocutionary speech acts Searle has specified? What is the illocutionary point of each type?(1) representatives: stating ordescribing, saying what the speaker believes to be true(2) directives: trying to get the hearer to do something(3) commissives: committing the speaker himself to some future course of action(4) expressives: expressing feelings or attitude towards an existing(5) declarations: bringing about immediate changes by saying somethingThe illocutionary point of the representatives is to commit the speaker to something’s being the case, to the truth of what has been said, in other words, when performing an illocutionary act of representative, the speaker is making a statement or giving a description which he himself believes to be true. Stating,believing, swearing, hypothesizing are among the most typical of the representatives.Directives are attempts by the speaker to get the hearer to do something. Inviting, suggesting, requesting, advising, wanting, threatening and ordering are all specific instances of this class.Commissives are those illocutionary acts whose point is to commit the speaker to some future course of action, i.e. when speaking the speaker puts himself under a certain obligation. Promising, undertaking, vowing are the most typical cases. The illocutionary point of expressives is to express the psychological state specified in the utterance. The speaker is expressing his feelings about or attitudes towards an existing state of affairs, e.g. apologizing, thanking, congratulating. The last class “declarations” has the characteristic that the successful performance of an act of this type brings about the correspondence between what is said and reality.4.What is indirect language use? How is it explained in the light of speech act theory?When someone is not saying in an explicit and straightforward manner what he means to say, rather he is trying to put across his message in an implicit, roundabout way, we can say he is using indirect language.5.What are the four maxims of the CP? Try to give your own examples to show how flouting these maxims gives rise to conversational implicature? Cooperative Principle, abbreviated as CP. It goes as follows:Make your conversational contribution such as required at the stage at which it occurs by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.To be more specific, there are four maxims under this general principle:(1) The maxim of quantityMake your contribution as informativeas required (for the current purpose of the exchange).Do not make your contribution more informative than is required.(2) The maxim of qualityDo not say what you believe to be false.Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.(3) The maxim of relationBe relevant.(4) The maxim of mannerAvoid obscurity of expression.Avoid ambiguity.Be brief (avoid unnecessary prolixity).Be orderly.。

(答案)英语语言学复习资料

(答案)英语语言学复习资料

RevisionI. Multiple choices.1. _C_________ are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords.A. StressesB. V oicingsC. TonesD. Intonations2. ______C____ plays the performative function.A. Hello, do you hear me?B. You’d better go to the clinic.C. Can’t you see people are dying?D. What a blessing!3. The ____B______ nature of language explains the symbolic nature of language: words are just symbols; they are associated with objects, actions, ideas, etc. by convention.A. dualityB. arbitraryC. productivityD. displacement4. The two words petrol and gasoline are ___A_______.A. dialectal synonymsB. stylistic synonymsC. synonyms that differ in their emotive meaningD. collocative synonyms5. _____C_____ is not a design feature of language.A. ArbitrarinessB. CreativityC. CommunicabilityD. Duality6. Syntactic deep structure was developed to _______B___.A. explain relations between sentences with the same meaningB. explain a single sentence with more than one meaningC. explain relations between sentences with different meaningsD. both A and B7. Promises and offers are characteristic of the group of ____C______ of illocutionary acts.A. representativesB. declarativesC. commissivesD. expressives8. –ish in the word boyish is _______D___.A. a free morphemeB. a rootC. a stemD. an affix9. ____D______ does NOT belong to semantic changes.A. BroadeningB. BorrowingC. NarrowingD. Class shift10. The two words suite and sweet are ______D____.A. hyponymsB. relational antonymsC. homographsD. Homophones11. According to ____A______ rule, the word sign should pronounced as [saIn].A. deletionB. sequentialC. assimilationD. suprasegmental12. What essentially distinguishes semantics from pragmatics is ______A____.A. whether in the study of the meaning the context of use is consideredB. whether it studies the meaning or notC. whether it studies how the speakers use language to effect communicationD. whether it is a branch of linguistics13. The sentence John likes linguistics, but Mary is interested in history is a __B________.A. simple sentenceB. coordinated sentenceC. complex sentenceD. clause14. _____C_____ is an error caused by negative transfer..A. goedB. comedC. footsD. He tomorrow come15. In general, linguistic change in ___D_______ of a language is the more noticeable than in other systems of the grammar.A. the sound systemB. the vocabularyC. the syntaxD. the sound system and the vocabulary16. ____D______ manifests various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree and case.A. RootsB. StemsC. Derivational affixesD. Inflectional affixesII. Blank-filling.1. _______ is the term used in linguistics to describe the relationship between a particular type of language and its context of use.2. One of the design features termed as ___displacement _______ means that human language enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of communication.3. Foreign language learners will subconsciously use their L1 knowledge in learning the foreign language and this is called language ___transfer _______.4. In injustice and imperfect, in- and im- are supposed to be the __affix_______ of the same morpheme.5. Chomsky defines _competence_________ as the ideal user’s knowledge of the rules of his language.6. Predication analysis is to break down predications into their constituents: argument____ and predicate__________.7. If we think of a sentence as what people actually utter in the course of communication, it becomes an __utterance______.8. If you tell someone the time instead of the price that is inquired by the person, you violate the maxim of___relation_______.9. The experience and his study of Hopi, an American Indian language, helped Whorf develop his unique understanding of linguistic _relativity_________, which is widely known as the SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESE.10. Evidence in support of lateralization for language in the left hemisphere of the brain comes from researches in __dichotic________ listening tasks.11. __ Componential________ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided into meaning components.12. Transformational rules are those rules which relate or transform _deep structure_________ ofa sentence into __surface structure________.13. The social group isolated for any given study is called the speech community________.14. _ Interpersonal_________ function is concerned with interaction between the addresser and addressee in the discourse situation and the addresser’s attitude toward what he speaks or writes about.15. Vibration of the vocal cords results in a quality of speech sounds called “_voicing_________”.16. The ultimate objective of language is not just to create grammatically well-formed sentences, but to convey __meaning________.17. Those morphemes that can not be used by themselves, but must be combined with other morphemes to form words are called __bound________ morphemes.18. _ Reference_________ means what a linguistic form refers to in the real, physical world; it deals with the relationship between the linguistic element and non-linguistic world of experience.19. The notion of __ context________ is essential to the pragmatic study of language.20. John believes (that the airplane was invented by an Irishman). The part in the bracket is a __ complement________ clause.III. True or False.1. A root is not always a free form.2. Behaviorism in linguistics holds that children learn language through a chain of stimulus-response reinforcement.3. The idea of doing something while speaking can certainly be broadened to include all the non-conventional acts such as stating, promising, requesting, and suggestion.4. A study of the features of the English used in Shakespeare’s time would be a diachronic study.5. The creativity of language originates from duality because by duality the speaker is able to combine the basic linguistic units to form an infinite set of sentences.6. The examples of semantic narrowing include wife, girl, fowl and bird.7. There is no absolute synonymy.8. A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound and cannot be further analyzed.9. Consciously or unconsciously, people’s social background exerts a shaping influence on their choice of linguistic features that are appropriate to their social identities.10. In the transformation of the sentence He doesn’t sleep well, do insertion comes first.IV. Definition1.categoryIt refers to a group of linguistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in a particular language such as a sentence, a noun phrase or a verb.plementary distributionallophones of the same phoneme and they don’t distinguish meaning but complement each other in distribution.3.contrastive analysisa method of analyzing languages for instructional purposes whereby a native language and target language are compared with a view to establishing points of difference likely to cause difficultiesfor learners.4.conversational implicatureThe use of conversational maxims to imply meaning during conversation.5. Cooperative PrincipleThe principle that the participants must first of all be willing to cooperate in making conversation, otherwise, it would be impossible to carry on the talk.6.the critical period hypothesisThe critical period Hypothesis:says that there is a period when language acquisition can take place naturally and effortlessly, but that after a certain age the brain is no longer able to process language input in this way.7. displacementDisplacement means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of conversation.8. entailmentthe relationship between two sentences where the truth of one is inferred from the truth of the other.9. illocutionary actThe act of expressing the speaker’s int ention and performed in saying something.10. negative transferthe mistaken transfer of features of one’s native language into a second language.V. Discussion1. Describe with examples the classification of morphemes.2. Describe the major ways of word formation with some examples.3. Describe major sense relations with examples.4. What are the three metafunctions proposed by Halliday?5. What does Chomsky mean by Language Acquisition Device (LAD)?In Chomsky's Innateness Hypothesis, it is held that, in human brain, there is innate UniversalGrammar which lies in one part of human brain called language acquisition device (LAD).6. What category/ categories of CP does the following exchange violate?A: Are you going to use your laptop this evening?B: I ha ven’t finished my assignment yet.7. Distinguish the following case of ambiguity by tree diagrams.Sentence: The magician touched the child with the wand.。

英语语言学知识点整理

英语语言学知识点整理

英语语言学知识点整理一、语言与语言学1、语言是什么?语言是一种符号系统,它由语音、词汇、语法和语用规则等构成。

2、语言学是什么?语言学是研究语言及其规律的科学,是社会科学的一门重要学科。

3、语言学的分支学科有哪些?语言学可以分为语音学、音系学、句法学、语义学、语用学等分支学科。

二、语音学与音系学1、语音学是什么?语音学是研究语音的学科,主要研究语音的物理属性、发音机制和语音的变化规律。

2、音系学是什么?音系学是研究语言的音系系统的学科,它的是语言的音位、音素、音节、语素等基本单位以及它们之间的组合关系和变化规律。

3、语音和音系的关系是什么?语音是音系的具体表现形式,而音系则是语音的基础和框架。

语音受到个人的发音和语境的影响,而音系则是一种抽象的概念,它是语言社团所共同遵守的规则。

三、句法学1、句法学是什么?句法学是研究句子的结构和规律的学科。

它主要的是词类、句子成分的构成和它们之间的组合关系。

2、句法学的核心概念有哪些?句法学的核心概念包括:词类、句子成分、句法关系、句型等。

3、常见的句法结构有哪些?常见的句法结构包括:简单句、复合句、并列句、复合并列句等。

四、语义学1、语义学是什么?语义学是研究语言意义的学科,主要研究词义、短语意义、句子意义和语篇意义等。

2、语义的分类有哪些?语义可以分为词汇意义、语法意义和语用意义。

词汇意义是指词汇的基本意义,语法意义是指词汇在句子中的组合关系和变化规律,语用意义是指词汇在特定语境中的特殊意义。

3、语义关系有哪些?语义关系包括:同义关系、反义关系、上下义关系等。

同义关系是指两个或多个词义相同或相似的词语之间的关系,反义关系是指两个或多个词义相反的词语之间的关系,上下义关系是指一个词所表达的概念是另一个词所表达的概念的一部分。

语言学知识点整理语言学是一门研究人类语言的学科,涉及语言的各个方面,包括语言的结构、使用、习得和进化等。

以下是一些常见的语言学知识点:1、语言与言语:语言是指一种符号系统,是人们用来表达思想、情感和意愿的工具。

《英语语言学》复习重点

《英语语言学》复习重点

《英语语⾔学》复习重点《英语语⾔学》复习重点Chapter I Invitation to linguistics1. What is language and linguistics?●Language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. To give the barestdefinition, language is a means of verbal communication. It is instrumental, social and conventional.●Linguistics is usually defined as the science of language or, alternatively, as the scientific study of language.It concerns with the systematic study of language or, a discipline that describes all aspects of language and formulates theories as to how language works.2. What are the design features of language? The definition of these design features: arbitrariness, duality, creativity, and displacement●Design features refers to the defining properties of human language that distinguish it from any animalsystem of communication. They are arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement, etc..●Arbitrariness refers to forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaningLanguage is arbitrary. There is no logical connection between meanings and sounds, even with onomatopoeic words●Duality refers to the property of having two levels of structure. The units of the primary level are composedof elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization.●Creativity refers to Words can be used in new ways to mean new things, and can be instantly understood bypeople who have never come across that usage before.●Displacement refers to the fact that language can be used to refer to things which are present ornot present, real or imagined matters in the past, present, or future, or in far-away places. It means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present (in time and space) at the moment of communication.3. Jakobson’s classification of functions of language.1).Referential function 所指功能2).Poetic function诗学功能3).Emotive function感情功能4).Conative function意动功能5).Phatic function交感功能6).Metalingual元语⾔功能Hu Zhuanglin’ classification of functions of language and use some examples to illustrate them.1).Informative function 信息功能2).Interpersonal function ⼈际功能3).Performative function 施为功能4).Emotive function 感情功能5).Phatic communion 交感性谈话6).Recreational function 娱乐性功能7).Metalingual function 元语⾔功能4. The definitions of important distinctions in lingustics: Who distinguished them?descriptive VS. presriptive;Descriptive(描写式):a kind of linguistic study in which things are just described.eg: American don’t say “I’ll give you some color see see.”Prescriptive(规定式): a kind of linguistic study in which things are prescribed how ought to be, i.e. laying down rules for language use.eg: Don’t say “I’ll give you some color see see.”synchronic VS. diachronic;Synchronic study(共时性) --- description of a language at some point of timeDiachronic study(历时性) --- description of a language through the course of its history (historical development of language over a period of time)langue & parole;Langue: (说话者的语⾔能⼒.)the linguistic competence of the speaker.Parole: (语⾔的实际现象或语料.) the actual phenomena or data of linguistics (utterances).competence and performance.Competence:(⼀个语⾔使⽤者关于语⾔系统规则的基本理解.)a language user’s underlyin g knowledge about the system of rules.Performance:(指在具体场景中语⾔的真实使⽤.)the actual use of language in concrete situations.The distinction is discussed by the American linguist N. Chomsky in the late 1950’s.Competence enables a speaker to produce and understand an indefinite number of sentences and to recognize grammatical mistakes and ambiguities.A speaker’s competence is stable while his performance is often influenced by psychological and social factors. So a speaker's performance does not always match or equal his supposed competence.5.What is the major differences between Saussure’s distinction between langue and parole and Chomsky’s distinction between competence and performance?①Saussure's language is social product, a set of conversations for a speech community.②Chomsky regards competence as property of the mind of each individual.③Saussure studies language more from a sociological point of view while Chomsky studies it more from a psychological point of view.Chapter 2 Speech soundsPhonetics4. Basic information about the IPAInternational Phonetic Alphabet (Otto Jesperson France)IPA:the abbreviation of International Phonetic Alphabet.It is a standardized and internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription.It is a standardized and internationally accepted system of phonetic transcription.The first version of IPA was published in August 1888.The latest version was devised in 1993 and corrected in 1996 and 2005.5. Three parameters to identify a consonant:①place of articulation: place in the mouth where obstruction occurs②manners of articulation: ways in which articulation can be accomplished③state of vocal cords: voiced VS. voiceless6.the categories of consonants according to the manner of articulation and the place of aritucatio7. English vowels can be divided into two large categories:Monophthongs or pure/single vowels 单元⾳Diphthongs or gliding vowels 双元⾳8. Four criteria (parameters) of vowel description1. the height of tongue raising (high, mid, low);2. the position of the highest part of the tongue (front, central, back);3. the length or tenseness of the vowel (tense vs. lax or long vs. short), and4. lip-rounding (rounded vs. unrounded).Phonology9. definition:1) Co-articulation: Simultaneous/overlapping articulation because of the influence of the neighbor sound(s)2) broad /narrow transcription: When we use a simple set of symbols in our transcription, it is called a broad transcription; The use of more specific symbols to show more phonetic detail is referred to as a narrow transcription.3)Phone: the smallest perceptible discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech. (in the mouth)4) Phoneme: a sound which is capable of distinguishing one word or one shape of a word from another in a given language is a phoneme. (in the mind)5)allophone phonic: variants of a phoneme are called allophone of the same phoneme.6)Minimal pairs:Three requirements for identifying minimal pairs: 1) different in meaning; 2) only one phoneme different;3) the different phonemes occur in the same phonetic environment.E.g. a minimal pair: pat-fat; lit-lip; phone-toneMinimal set: pat, mat, bat, fat, cat, hat, etc7)Suprasegmental features: features that involve more than single sound segment, such as stress(重⾳),length (⾳程), rhythm(节奏),tone(⾳调),intonation(语调)juncture(⾳渡).8) syllable:10.Exemplify the relationship between phone, phoneme and allophone..Phone(⾳素): the smallest perceptible discrete segment of sound in a stream of speech. (in the mouth)i) phonetic unit ii) not necessarily distinctive of meaningiii) physical as heard or produced iv) marked with [ ].Phoneme (⾳位):A sound which is capable of distinguishing one word or one shape of a word from another in a given language is a phoneme. (in the mind)i) phonological unit ii) distinctive of meaningiii) abstract, not physical iv) marked with / /..allophone (⾳位变体) : phonic variants of a phoneme are called allophone of the same phoneme.e.g.:p ot, s p ot, cu p: [ph] vs. [p] vs. [ p? ] (unreleased)11. What are the differences between Phonetics and Phonology?Phonetics studies how speech sounds are produced, transmitted and received. It is concerned with the actual physical articulation, transmission and perception of speech sounds.Phonology is essentially the description of the systems and patterns of speech sounds. It is concerned with the abstract and mental aspect of the sounds in languageChapter 3 Morphology12. Three senses of “word”(1) A physically definable unit: a cluster of sound segments or letters between two pause or blank.(2) Word both as a general term and as a specific term.(3) A grammatical unit.13.The classification of word. Using some examples to explain these classifications.Words can be classified in terms of:★(1) Variable vs. invariable words (可变词/不可变词)★(2) Grammatical words vs. lexical words (语法词/词汇词)★(3) Closed-class words vs. open-class words(封闭词/开放词)★(4) word class(词类)(1) Variable vs. invariable words (可变词/不可变词)the former refers to words having inflective changes(屈折变化)while the latter refers to words having no such endings.Variable words: follow; follows; following; followedInvariable words: since; when; seldom; through; hello(2) Grammatical words vs. lexical words (function words and content words.语法词/词汇词).The former refers to those words expressing grammatical meanings, such as conjunctions(连词), prepositions(介词), articles(冠词), and pronouns(代词);.the latter refers to words having lexical meanings, those which refer to substance, action etc. such as n., v., adj., and adv.(3) Closed-class words vs. open-class words (封闭词/开放词).the former refers to words whose membership is fixed or limited; e.g. pron., prep., conj., article..the latter of which the membership is infinite or unlimited. e.g.: n., v., adj., adv.(4) word class (词类)14. definition:1) Morphology:Morphology is a branch of linguistics, which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed.2) Morpheme: the smallest unit of meaning, which can not be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.Free morphemes: morphemes which may constitute words by themselves.Bound morphemes:morphemes which can not be used by themselves, but must be combined with other morphemes to form words Inflectional morpheme: a kind of bound morphemes which manifest various grammatical relations or grammatical categories such as number, tense, degree and case.Derivational morpheme: a kind of bound morphemes, added to existing forms to create new words. There are three kinds according to position: prefix, suffix and infix.3) Affix: is the term for the type of form that can be used to add to another morpheme (root or stem) to form word. It can’t be used freely in sentence.prefix: change meaning eg: dis-; un-; mis-suffix: change part of speech eg: -ly; -ness; -tioninfix: some languages also have infixes, affix morphemes that are inserted into root or stem morphemes to divide them into two parts.4) Inflection: the manifestation of grammatical relationships through the addition of inflectional affixes, such as tense, number, person, finiteness, aspect and case, which do not change the grammatical class of the stems to which they are attached.5) word-formation①Compound: referring to those words that consist of more than one lexical morpheme, or the way to join two separate words to produce a new word. ②Derivation: the way to form words with a combination of roots and affixes.15. examples of Lexical change proper★(1) Invention 新造词Nylon★(2) Blending 混合词smoke + fog→ smog★(3) Abbreviation 缩合词TV → television★(4) Acronym ⾸字母缩略词NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)★(5) back-formation 逆构词editor edit★(6) analogical creation 类⽐造词p76★(7) Borrowing 借词、外来词Kong FuChapter 4 Syntax16. Definition:Syntax: is the study of the rules governing the ways different constituents are combined to form sentences in a language, or the study of the interrelationships between elements in sentence structures.paradigmatic Relations:Syntagmatic Relations:Endocentric Constructions:is one whose distribution is functionally equivalent to that of one or more of its constituents, i.e., a word or a group of words, which serves as a definable centre or head.Exocentric Constructions:refers to a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as awhole, that is, ther e is no definable “Centre” or “Head” inside the group Category: refers to the defining properties of these general units: Categories of the noun: number, gender, case and countabilityCategories of the verb: tense, aspect, voice17.three kinds of syntactic relations:relations of position位置关系Positional relation, or WORD ORDER, refers to the sequential arrangement of words in a language.relations of substitutability 可替代性关系The Relation of Substitutability refers to classes or sets of words substitutable for each other grammatically in sentences with the same structure.relations of co-occurrence 同现关系It means that words of different sets of clauses may permit, or require, the occurrence of a word of another set or class to form a sentence or a particular part of a sentence.18. Immediate Constituent Analysis (IC Analysis)Immediate constituent analysis is a form of linguistic review that breaks down longer phrases or sentences into their constituent parts, usually into single words. This kind of analysis is sometimes abbreviated as IC analysis, and gets used extensively by a wide range of language experts.19. Endocentric constructions fall into two main types, depending on the relation between constituents: Coordination and subordination Coordination is a common syntactic pattern in English and other languages formed by grouping together two or more categories of the same type with the help of a conjunction such as and, but and or .Subordination refers to the process or result of linking linguistic units so that they have different syntactic status, one being dependent upon the other, and usually a constituent of the other.20. Characteristics of subjectsA) Word order: Subject ordinarily precedes the verb in the statementB) Pro-forms(代词形式) : The first and third person pronouns in English appear in a special form when the pronoun is a subjectC) Agreement with the verb: In the simple present tense, an -s is added to the verb when a third person subject is singular, but the number and person of the object or any other element in the sentence have no effect at all on the form of the verbD) Content questions (实意问句): If the subject is replaced by a question word (who or what), the rest of the sentence remains unchangedE) Tag question (反意问句): A tag question is used to seek confirmation of a statement. It always contains a pronoun which refers back to the subject, and never to any other element in the sentence.Chapter 5 Semantics21. Geoffrey Leech (1974, 1981). Semantics: The Study of Meaning. Seven types of meaning:Conceptual meaning: Also called ‘denotative’ or ‘cognitive’ meaning.Refers to logical, cognitive or denotative content.Concerned with the relationship between a word and the thing it denotes, or refers to. English word“river” →“江”and“河”Connotative meaning: The communicative value an expression has by virtue of what it refers to, over and above its purely conceptual content. It is the intensional meaning which a word suggests or implies. home: family, friends, warmth, cozy, comfortable, safety, love, free, convenience Social meaning:What a piece of language conveys about the social circumstances of its use. Affective meaning: --Reflecting the personal feelings of the speaker, including his attitude to the listener, or his attitude to something he is talking about.Reflected and meaning:--Arises in cases of multiple conceptual meaning, when one sense of a word forms part of our response to another sense.Collocative meaning: --The associations a word acquires on account of the meanings of words which tend to occur in its environment. Thematic meaning:--What is communicated by the way in which a speaker or writer organizes the message, in terms of ordering, focus, and emphasis.22. Explain the semantic triangle by using some examples.23. Use some examples to explain three sense relations:Synonymy; Antonymy; HyponymySynonymy 同义buy/purchase thrifty/economical/stingy autumn/fall flat/apartment tube/undergroundGradable antonymy 渐次对⽴关系good ------------- bad long --------------- short big ---------------- smallComplementary antonymy 互补反义关系alive : dead male : female present : absent innocent : guilty odd : even pass : failboy : girlhit : missConverse antonymy 逆向反义关系buy : sell lend : borrow give : receive parent : child husband : wife teacher : student above : belowbefore : afterhost : guestemployer : employeeHyponymy 上下义Superordinate (上义词): the more general termHyponym (下义词): the more specific termCo-hyponyms (同义词): members of the same class24. Componential relations (成分分析)“Componential analysis”---- defines the meaning of a lexical element in terms of semantic components.Componential analysis refers to an approach adopted by structural semanticists in describing the meaning of words or phrases. This approach is based on the belief that the total meaning of a word can be analyzed in terms of a number of distinct elements or meaning components 25. Sense relations between sentences 1 A entails B ( A is an entailment of B ) 蕴含2 A Presupposes B (A presupposes B) 预设3 A is inconsistent with B 不⼀致4 A is synonymous with B 同义5 A is a contradiction ⾃相⽭盾6 A is semantically anomalous 反常26. Explain the difference between sense and reference from the following four aspects:1) A word having reference must have sense;2) A word having sense might not have reference;3) A certain sense can be realized by more than one reference; 4) A certain reference can be expressed by moreThe distinction between “sense” and “reference” is comparable to that between “connotation” and “denotation”. The former refers to some abstract properties, while the latter refers to some concrete entities.Firstly, to some extent, we can say that every word has a sense, i.e., some conceptual content; otherwise we would not be able to use it or understand it. Secondly, but not every word has a reference. There are linguistic expressions which can never be used to refer to anything, for example, the words so, very, maybe, if, not, and all. These words do of course contribute meaning to the sentences in which they occur and thus help sentences denote, but they themselves do not identify entities in the world. They are intrinsically non-referring terms. And words like ghost and dragon refer to imaginary things, which do not exist in reality. Thirdly, some expressions will have the same reference across a range of utterances, e.g., the Eiffel Tower or the Pacific Ocean. Such expressions are sometimes described as having constant reference. Others have their references totally dependent on context. Expressions like I, you, she, etc. are said to have variable references. Lastly, sometimes a reference may be expressed by more than one sense. For instance, both ‘evening star’ and ‘morning star’(晚星,启明星), though they differ in sense, refer to Venus. Chapter 6 Psychology and cognitive lingusitics27. What are the differences between metaphor & metonymy? Give some examples.Metaphor is a conceptual mapping(概念映射), not a linguistic one, from one domain to another(从⼀个语域到另⼀个语域), not from a word to another.Metonymy is a cognitive process in which one conceptual entity, the vehicle(源域), provides mental access to another conceptual entity, the target(⽬标域), within the same domain. The reference point activates the target.1.Metaphor is used for substitution, while metonymy is used for association.2.Metaphor can mean condensation and metonymy can mean displacement.3.A metonymy acts by combining ideas while metaphor acts by suppressing ideas.4.In a metaphor, the comparison is based on the similarities, while in metonymy the comparison is based on contiguity.--For example, the sentence ‘he is a tiger in class’ is a metaphor. Here the word tiger is used in substitution for displaying an attribute of charact er of the person. The sentence ‘the tiger called his students to the meeting room’ is a metonymy. Here there is no substitution; instead the person is associated with a tiger for his nature..Metaphors are actually cognitive tools that help us structure our thoughts and experiences in the world around us..Metaphor is a conceptual mapping(概念映射), not a linguistic one, from one domain to another (从⼀个语域到另⼀个语域), not from a word to another.Metonymy(换喻,转喻).It is a cognitive process in which one conceptual entity, the vehicle(源域), provides mental access to another conceptual entity, the target(⽬标域), within the same domain.Chapter 7 Language, culture and society28. the relationship between language and thought?29. What’s Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? Give your comment on it.Edward Sapir (1884 - 1939) and Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897-1941)Our language helps mould our way of thinking and, consequently, different languages mayprobably express speakers’unique ways of understanding the world.Linguistic determinism: L may determine our thinking patterns.Linguistic relativity: a. Similarity between language is relative; b. the greater their structuraldifferentiation is, the diverse their conceptualization of the world will be.30. What is the importance of culture in classroom teaching?Standard language.Chapter 8 Pragmatics31. Speech act theory32.What’s your understanding of conversational implicature? Using one or two examples to discuss the voilationof its maxims.People do not usually say things directly but tend to imply them.CP is meant to describe what actually happens in conversation.People tend to be cooperative and obey CP in communication.Since CP is regulative, CP can be violated.Violation of CP and its maxims leads to conversational implicature.1. Make your contribution as informative as is required.A: 昨天上街买了些什么?> I don’t want to tell you what I bought.2.Do not make your contribution more informative than is required. (violation of quantity)Aunt: How did Jimmy do his history exam?Mother: Oh, not at all well. Teachers asked him things that happened before the poor boy was born.> Her son should not be blamed.1. Do not say what you believe to be false. (violation of quality)He is made of iron.2. Do not say that for which you lack adequate evidence.A: Beirut is in Peru, isn’t it?B: And Rome is in Romania, I suppose.> It’s ridiculous.Be relevant. (violation of relation)A: Prof. Wang is an old bag.B: Nice weather for the time of year.> I don’t want to tal k about Prof. Wang.1. Avoid obscurity of expression (violation of manner)A: Let’s get the kids something.B: Ok, but I veto C-H-O-C-O-L-A-T-E.> Don’t give them chocolate.2. Avoid ambiguityA: Name and title, please?B: John Smith, Associate Editor and professor.3. Be briefA: Did you get my assignment?B: I received two pages clipped together and covered with rows of black squiggles.> not satisfied.33.What are the main differences between pragmatics and semantics?Semantics and pragmatics are both lingustic studies of meaning. The essential difference lies in whether in thestudy of meaning the context of use is considered. If it is not, the study is restricted to the area of traditional semantics; if it is,the study is carried out in the area of pragmatics.Semantics studies sentences as units of the abstract linguistic system while pragmatics studies utterances as instances of the system.The former stops at the sentence level; the latter looks at bigger chunks of conversation. The formar regards sentences as stable products; the latter treats utterances as dynamic processes. The former analyses sentences in isolation; the latter analyses utternaces in close connnection with their contexts of situation.Chapter 9 Language and literature34.What is ‘foregrounding’?In a purely linguistic sense, the term ‘foregrounding’ is used to refer to new information, in contrast to elements in the sentence which form the background against which the new elements are to be understood by the listener / reader.In the wider sense of stylistics, text linguistics, and literary studies, it is a translation of the Czech aktualisace (actualization), a term common with the Prague Structuralists.The English term ‘foregrounding’has come to mean several things at once:-the (psycholinguistic) processes by which - during the reading act - something may be given special prominence; -specific devices (asproduced by the author) located in the text itself. It is also employed to indicate the specific poetic effect on the reader;-an analytic category in order to evaluate literary texts, or to situate them historically, or to explain their importance and cultural significance, or to differentiate literature from other varieties of language use, such as everyday conversations or scientific reports.35.Literal language and figurative language-A language is called literal when what is meant to be conveyed is same as what the word to word meaning of what is said. In contrast the figurative language, the words are used to imply meaning which is other than their strict dictionary meaning.-Literal language refers to words that do not deviate from their defined meaning. Figurative language refers to words, and groups of words, that exaggerate or alter the usual meanings of the component words. Figurative language may involve analogy to similar concepts or other contexts, and may involve exaggerations. These alterations result in figures of speech.Chapter 11 Linguistics & Language Teaching36. As to learning English well, what do you think is the most desirable syllabus for English majors?37. Definition: Applied linguistics; Universal Grammar; syllabus; interlanguage; contrastive analysis.the Input HypothesisApplied linguistics:the study of the relation of linguistics to foreign language teaching, of theways of applying linguistic theories to the practice of foreign language teaching.Universal Grammar:is a theory in linguistics that suggests that there are properties that allpossible natural human languages have. Usually credited to Noam Chomsky, the theory suggeststhat some rules of grammar are hard-wired into the brain, and manifest themselves without beingtaught. There is still much argument whether there is such a thing and what it would be.Syllabus:a syllabus is a specification of what take place in the classroom,which usually containsthe aims and contents of teaching and sometimes contains suggestions of methodology.Interlanguage:the type of language constructed by second or foreign language learners who arestill in the process of learning a language is often referred to as interlanguage.contrastive analysis:A way of comparing L1 and L2 to determine potential errors for the purposeof isolating what needs to be learned and what not. Its goal is to predict what areas will be easy tolearn and what will be difficult.Associated in its early days with behaviorism and structuralism.the Input Hypothesis:according to krashen's input hypothessis,learners acquire language as a result of comprehending input addressed to them.Chapter 12 Theories & schools of modern linguistics38.Transformational-Generative GrammarThe five stages of development of TG Grammar:1) The classical theory (1957)2) The standard theory (1965)3) Extended standard theory4) GB/PP theory (1981)5) The Minimalist ProgramCHOMSKY’S TG GRAMMAR DIFFERS FROM THE STRUCTURAL GRAMMARIN A NUMBER OF WAYS1 rationalism 2innateness 3 deductive methodology4 emphasis on interpretation 5formalization 6.emphasis on linguistic competence7.strong generative powers 8.emphasis on linguistic universals。

英语语言学概论复习资料(2)

英语语言学概论复习资料(2)

英语语言学概论复习资料(2)《英语语言学概论》复习资料1I. Definitions.Directions:Define the following terms. Explain them with examples if necessary.1.arbitrariness2.morpheme3.endocentric construction4.construal5.principle of compositionalityII..Do the following according to the requirements.1. Identify the manner of articulation of the initial sounds in the following words(a) cheery (b) funny (c) loony (d) crazy (e) happy2. Make distinctions between the following pair of terms.descriptive vs. prescriptive3. What are the allomorphs of the morpheme ‘plural’ in this set of English words?criteria, dogs, oxen, deer, judges, stimuli4. Create a tree diagram and also make a bracketed analysis of the following sentence:The thief stole a wallet.5. What are the features of women register?III. Discussion.1. How do you understand Grice’s CP and its maxims? Give an example to theviolation of each of its maxims?2. What will you say to a statement like “one culture’s meat is another culture’spoison”?答案及评分标准I.Definition. 共5题1. arbitrariness refers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bears no naturalrelationship to their meaning.2.morpheme: the smallest unit of language in terms of relationship between。

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一、填空Chapter 51. One difficulty in the study of Meaning is that the word “meaning” itself has different meanings. In their book The Meaning of Meaning written in 1923, C.K. Ogden and I.A. Richards presented a “representative list of the main definitions which reputable students of meaning have favoured”.2. G.Leechin a more moderate tone recognizes 7 types of meaning in his Semantics, first published in 1974.3. There are generally three kinds of sense relations recognized, namely, sameness relation, oppositeness relation and inclusiveness relation.Chomsky’ of Syntactic Structure(1957) helped to ignite the cognitive revolution.5. The exist three approaches to the study of language and cognition: the formal approach, the psychological approach and the conceptural approach.6. The most important research subjects are acquisition, comprehension and production.7.From a psychological point of view, we store a great deal of information about the properties of words in our mental lexicon心理词库, and retrieve this information when we understand language.8.Similarity and frequency both play important roles in processing and comprehending language, with the novel items being processed based on their similarity to the known ones.9.According to cohort model集群理论proposed by Marslen- wilson and Welsh in 1990.Chapter 7*四个代表人物10.Malinowski马林洛夫斯基claimed that” In its primitive uses, language functions as a link in concerted human activity…”11.Firth福斯,a leading figure in a linguistic tradition later known as the London School, tried to...In the end, he developed his own theory of Context of Situation. 12.M.A.K. Halliday韩礼德,whose contributions to sociolinguistics could be …. , and his linguistic model in the study of literature.13. Eugene Nida尤金奈达, a well-known linguist and traditional theorist, concerning the relationship between language and culture.14.Hypothesis has alternatively been referred to as linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity.15. Cross-cultural communication跨文化交际中,there are five types of sub-culture 五种次文化形态we should be fully aware of: (1)ecological culture (2)linguistic culture (3)religious culture (4)material culture (5)social culture.[Nida,1964]16.During the whole 20th century, a great deal of efforts has been taken to treat the inquiry of linguistics as a monistic一元观or autonomous pursuit自治性of an independent science.Chapter 817. This kind of meaning is sometimes referred to as speaker’s meaning, utterance meaning, or contextual meaning.18.Semantic VS Pragmatics, the difference iscontext.二、名词解释Chapter 51.Semantics语义学is the stutyof the meaning of linguistic units,words and sentences in particular.2.The referential theory指称论: The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the Referential theory.3.Concept概念:There is something behind the concrete thing we can see with our eyes. And that something is abstract, which has no existence in the material word and can be sensed in our minds. This abstract thing is usually called concept.4.The semantic triangle语义三角:The relation between a word and a thing it refers to is no direct. It is mediated by concept.5.Sense涵义:In contrast to reference, sense may be defined as t:he semantic relations between one word and another, or more generally between one linguistic unit and another. It is concerned with the intralinguistic relations.6.Reference指称: Reference is concerned with the relation between a word and the thing it refers to, or more generally between a linguistic unit and a non-linguistic entity it refers to.7.Synonymy同义关系:Synonymy is the technical name for one of the sense relations between linguistic units, namely the sameness relation.8.gradable antonymy等级反义关系:Gradable antonymy is the sense relation between two antonymyswhich differ in terms of degree. There is an intermediate ground between the two. The denial of one is not necessarily the assertion of the other. Something which is not “good” is not necessarily “bad”. If may Simply be “so-so” or “average”.positionality组合原则: Compositionality refers to the principles that the meaning of a sentence depends on the meanings of the constituent words and the way they are combined.10.Sentence meaning句子意义: This ia an area where word meaning and sentence structure come together.Chapter 611.Cognition认知:In psychology it is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that the mind has internal mental states such as beliefs, desires and intentions. Another definition of “cognition” is the mental process or faculty of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.12.Cognitive linguistics认知语言学: is the scientific study of the relation between the way we communicate and the way we think.13.Psychological心理语言学:is the study of psychological aspects of language, it usually studies the psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language.nguage acquisition语言习得:is one of the central topics in psycholinguistics.How does a child acquire the language skills (first language) and how are they extended to other languages (second/foreign language acquisition)?15.Connectionism in psychological连通主义: claims that readers use the same system of links between spelling units and sound units to generate the pronunciations of written words like tove and to access the pronunciations of familiar words like stove, or words that are exceptions to these patterns, like love.16.Construal识解: is the ability to conceive and portray the same situation in alternate ways through specificity, different mental scanning, directionality, vantage point, figure-ground segregation etc.17.Categorization范畴化: is the process of classifying our experiences into different categories based on commonalities and differences.18. Metaphor隐喻:involves the comparison of two concepts in that one is construed in terms of the other. It’s often described in terms of a target domain and a source domain. The target domain is the experience being described by the metaphor and the source domain is the means that we used in order to describe the experience.Chapter 719.Anthropological orientation人类学转向: in the study of language was developed both in England and in North America. What characterized this new tradition was its study of language in a sociocultural context.20.Anthropological study of Linguistics人类语言学:aims to look at the relationships between language and culture in a speech community. For this reason, it can alternatively be called anthropological linguistics. More specifically, practitioners of the field want to know more about a given community by examining the correlation between the tradition of the community, beliefs, and social behavior of community members and their language used in different contextsof communication.21.Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis萨丕尔—沃尔夫假说: is a theoretic assumption which suggests that our language helps mould our way of thinking and consequently, different languages may probably express speakers’ unique ways of understanding the word. In a loose sense, this termcan be interchangeably used with linguistic relativity and linguistic determinism.22.Linguistic determinism语言决定论:is a theory which believes that our language will influence or decide our way of looking at the world. In a loose sense, linguistic determinism, linguistic relativity, and the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis can be regarded as synonyms.23.The strong version强势说of the theory refers to the claim the original hypothesis makes, emphasizing the decisive role of language as the shaper of our thinking patterns.24.The weak version弱势说of this hypothesis, is a modified type of its original theory, suggesting that there is a correlation between language,culture,and thought, but the cross-cultural differences thus produced in our ways of thinking are relative, rather than categorical.25.Socilinguistics社会语言学: as an interdisciplinary study of language use, attempts to show the relationships between language and social. It examines issuesrelated to the subject from a more linguistic perspective and hence, is complementary with the Sociolinguistics of Society in terms of its coverage and concerns. Also it is a study of sociolinguistic issues at a macro level of discussion. Chapter 826.Pragmatics语用学: is the study of language in use or context.(对语境中语言运用的研究)27.conversational implicature会话含义:This is a type of implied meaning, which is deduced on basis of the conventional meaning of words together with the context, under the guidance of the CP and its maxims. In this sense, implicature is comparable to illocutionary force in speech act theory in that they are both concerned with the contextual side of meaning, or言外之意in Chinese.28.Performatives施为句: is a sentence like ” I name this ship the Queen Elizabeth”, which does not describe thing and cannot be said to be true or false. The uttering of these sentences is, or is a part of, the doing of an action. So they are called performatives. And verbs like name are called performative verbs.29.Constative s表述句:In contrast to performative, sentences like “I pour some liquid into the tube”is a description of what the speaker is doing at the time of speaking. The speaker cannot pour any liquid into a tube by simply uttering these words. He must accompany his words with the actual pouring. Otherwise one can accuse him of making a false statement. Sentence of this type are known as constatives.30.Relevance theory关联理论:the theory was formally proposed by Dan Sperber and Deirdre Wilson in their book Relevance: Communication and Cognition in 1986. They argue that all Griceanmaxims, including the CP itself, should be reduced to a single principle of relevance, which is defined as:Every act of ostensive communication communicates the presumption of its own optimal relevance.31.locutionary act 发话行为: is the ordinary act we perform when we speak, i.e. we move our vocal organs and produce a number of sounds, organized in a certain way and with a certain meaning. For example, when somebody says “morning!”, we could say he produced a sound, word, or sentence—“morning!”32.Perlocutionary act取效行为,言后行为: it concerns the consequential effects of a locution upon the hearer. By telling somebody something the speaker may change the opinion of the header on something, or mislead him, or surprise him, or induce him to do something, etc. Whether or not these effects are intended by the speaker, they can be regarded as part of the act that the speaker has performed.三、问答题Chapter 51.G.Leech- 7 types of meaning:①Conceptual meaning概念意义: Logical, cognitive or denotative content.②Connotative meaning内涵意义: what is communicated by virtue of what language refers to.③Social meaning社会意义: what is communicated of the social circumstances of language use.④Affective meaning感情意义: what is communicated of the feelings andattitudes of the speaker/writer.⑤Reflective meaning反映意义: what is communicated through association with another sense of the same expression.⑥Collocative meaning搭配意义: what is communicated through association with words which tend to occur in the environment of other word.⑦Thematic meaning主题意义: what is communicated bu the way in which the message is organized in terms of order and emphasis.2. Sense和Reference的区别:①The distinction between “sense” and “reference” is comparable to that between “connotation” and “denotation”. The former refers to the abstract properties of an entity, while the latter refers to the concrete entities having these properties.②To some extent, we can say every word has a sense, but not every word has a reference.3.Gradable antonymy等级反义关系:(1).First, as the name suggests, they are Gradable.(2)Second,antonymy of this kind are graded against different norms. There is no absolute criterion by which we may say something is good or bad, long or short, big or small. The criterion varies with the object described.(3)Third, one number of a pair, usually the term for the higher degree, serves as the cover term.Chapter 64.Psychological in vestigates the six following subjects心理语言学被分为六个方向:(1)language acquisition(2)language comprehension(3)language production (4)language disorders(5)language and thought(6)and cognitive architecture of language.The most important research subjects are acquisition, comprehension and production.Chapter 85.utterance 和sentence的区别:(1).utterance meaning: it is context-dependent. It is the product of sentence meaning and context. Therefore, it is richer than the meaning of the sentence.(2)sentence meaning: it is the abstract context-dependent entity called semantic proposition.6.Characteristics of Implicature会话含义的特征:(1)calculability (2)cancelability(3)non-detachability (4)non-conventionality6.The cooperative principle合作原则的四准则:(1)quantity:A. make your contribution as informative as is requiredB.do not make your contribution more informative than is required.(2)quality: try to make your contribution one that is true.A. do not say what you believe to be false.B.do not day that for which you lack adequate evidence.(3)relation: be relevant(4)manner: be perspicuousA. avoid obscurity of expressionB. avoid ambiguityC. be brief( avoid prolixity)D. be orderly。

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