语言学试题

第八章语言与心理、文化、社会、计算机Chapter Eight: Language and Mind, Culture, Society and Computer

真题实战

1. Define the following terms

1)1)diglossia (同济大学1999年、南开大学2001年、

武汉大学2003年考研试题)

2)2)social dialect (武汉大学2004年考研试题)

3)3)official language （中山大学、武汉大学2000年

考研试题）

4)4)tobacco （同济大学2000年、大连外国语学院2002

年考研试题）

5)5)code switching （同济大学2000年考研试题）

6)6)free variation (武汉大学2004年考研试题)

7)7)linguistic relativity (中山大学2004年考研试

题)

8)8)the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis（上海外国语大学、

南开大学2000年、浙江大学2003年考研试题）

9)9)restricted code （南开大学2000年考研试题)

10)10)proxemics (南开大学2000年考研试题)

11)11)cross-cultural communication (浙江大学

2003年考研试题)

12)12)computational linguistics (浙江大学2004

年考研试题)

13)13)corpus linguistics (南开大学2004年考研试

题)

14)14)CALL （南开大学2004年考研试题)

2. Word Completion

Directions:Fill in the blanks with the most suitable

words

1)1)＿，which severs as a polite substitute for

taboo expression, is a mild, indirect or less offensive word or expression substituted when the speaker or writer fears that more direct wording might be harsh or offensive.(武汉大学2002年考研试题)

2)2)A＿is a mixed and limited language used for

some practical purposes by groups of people who do not know each other’s languages.(武汉大学2002年考研试题)

3)3)When a pidgin has acquired native speakers,

that is to say, when it becomes the first language of a social community, it becomes a ＿.(上海交通大学2003年考研试题)

4)4)People do not perceive the world freely but

rather they do so through language, a filtering structure which will distort the reality and thus influence and control the thought. This view is commonly referred to as ＿Hypothesis, which can be traced back to Von Humboldt. (中山大学2003年考研试题)

5)5)The linguistic study of language ＿is

called institutional linguistics. （中山大学2002年考研试题)

6)6)The word “afters”usually used in ＿class.

(中山大学2002年考研试题)

7)7)More qualifiers and intensifiers are used by

＿. (电子科技大学2002年考研试题)

8)8)The term ＿describes the observed fact that

people take turns at speaking, one at a time in conversation. (吉林大学2004年考研试题)

3. True or False Questions

Directions: D ecide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true and F for false in the bracket before each of them.

1)1)( ) Sociolinguists are interested in “terms

of address”because they offer some socio-cultural information about the type of relationship between the speaker and the hearer. (上海外国语大学2000年考研试题)

2)2)( ) Micro-sociolinguistics is

sociolinguistics proper. (东南大学2003年考研试题)

3)3)（） Linguistic competence is one variety

of cultural-competence. (东南大学2003年考研试题)

4)4)( ) In Hymes’view, the learner acquires

knowledge of sentences not only as grammatical knowledge of the ideal language user and has nothing to do with the actual use of language in concrete situation. (南开大学2004年考研试题)

第八章试题答案

2.

1)1)Euphemism 2)pidgin 3)creole 4)Sapir-Whorf

5)planning 6)lower 7)women 8)adjacency pair 3.