英语语言学教程(胡壮麟版)
Chapter one. Invitation to Linguistic.
1. What is language?
“ Languageis 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 intrinsic connection between a work (like “book”) and the object it refers to. This explains a
is explained by the fact that different languages have different “ books ”“:book ”in English, “ livre in” French, “shu” ii n eCseh. It is symbolic, 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 languages. 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 written. The term “ human” in the definition is meant to specify that language is human specific.
2. 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 interchangeability
(1) Arbitrariness: By “ arbitrariness ”, we mean there is no logical connection between meanings and
sounds.
(2) Duality: The property of having two levels of structures (phonological and grammatical), units of the primary level
being composed of elements of the secondary level and each level having its own principles of organization.
(3) Productivity: Productivity refers to the ability to the ability to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of
sentences in one?s native language, including those that has never heard before, but that are appropriate to the
speaking situation. The property that enables native speakers to construct and understand an indefinitely large
number of utterances, including utterances that they have never previously encountered.
(4) 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.
(5) 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.
(6) Interchangeability: Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of
messages.
3. Functions of Language.
Language has at least seven functions: phatic, directive, Informative, interrogative, expressive, evocative and performative.
(1) Phatic function: The “ phaticfunction r”efers 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.
(2) Directive function: The “ directive function ”thamt laenagnusage may be used to get the hearer
to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e. g., “Tell me the res you finish. ”
(3) 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).
(4) Interrogative function: When language is used to obtain information, it serves an “ interrogat
function ”. This includes all queosntsi that expect replies, statements, imperatives etc.
(5) Expressive function: The “ expressivefunction i”s the use of language to reveal something about the feelings or
attitudes of the speaker.
(6) Evocative function: The “ evocative function ” is the useagoef latongcrueate certain feelings in
the hearer. Its aim is, for example, to amuse, startle, antagonize, soothe, worry or please.
(7) Per formative function: This means people speak to “do things ” or perform actions.
4. What is linguistic?
“ Linguistics ” is itehnetisfi c study of language. It studies not just one language of any one society, but
the language of all human beings. In short, linguistics studies the general principles whereupon all human languages are constructed and operate as systems of communication in their societies or communities.
5. Main branches of linguistics.
The study of language as a whole is often called general linguistics. 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, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics etc.
6. Important distinctions in linguistic.
(1) synchronic study vs. diachronic study
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).
(2) Speech vs. writing
Speech is primary, because it existed 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. In contrast to speech, spoken form of language, writing as written codes, gives language new scope and use that speech does not have. Most modern linguistic analysis is focused on speech, different from grammarians of the last century and theretofore.
(3) Descriptive vs. prescriptive
A linguis tic 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 bef 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.
(4) . langue vs. 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 realization 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.
(5) . competence vs. performance
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. Chomsky believes that linguists ought to study competence, rather than performance.
(6) . linguistic potential vs. linguistic behavior
These two terms, or the potential-behavior distinction, were made by M. A. K. Halliday 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 ceartianinpeorcscoans i osnwthoaat hc e rht as
chosen from many possible injustice items, each of which he could have said (linguistic potential).
Chapter 2 Phonetics
1. 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, 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 articulatory phonetics.
2. The IPA
The IPA, abbreviation of “ InternationalPhonetic 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.
3. Place of articulation
It refers to the place in the mouth where, for example, the obstruction occurs, resulting in the utterance of a consonant.
4. Manner of articulation
The “ manner of articulation ” literally means the way a sound is articulated.
5. Phonology
“ 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.
6. Narrow transcription and broad transcription.
The former was meant to symbolize all the possible speech sounds, including even the most minute shades of pronunciation while Broad transcription was intended to indicate only those sounds capable of disti nguish ing one word from ano ther in a give n Ian guage.
7. Phone Phoneme Allophone
A “ phone is a phonetic unit or segment. The speech sounds we hear and produce during linguistic com mun icati on are all phon es. When we hear the follow ing words pronoun ced: [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 “ phon eme" is a pho no logical un it; it is a un it that is of dist in ctive value. As an abstract un it, a phon eme
is not any particular sound, but rather it is represe nted or realized by a certa in phone in a certa in phon etic
con text. For example, the pho neme[p] is represe nted differe ntly in [pit], [tip] and [spit].
The phones representing a phoneme are called its “ allophones " , i.e., the different (i.e., phones) but do n 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 is the allophones of the same phoneme [p]. How a phoneme is represe nted by a pho ne, or which alloph one is to be used, is determ ined by the pho netic con text in which it occurs. But the choice of an allopho ne is not ran dom .In most cases it is rule-gover ned; these rules are to
be found out by a pho no logist.
8. Minimal pairs?
When two differe nt pho netic forms are ide ntical in every way except for one sound segme nt which occurs
in the same place in the stri ng, the two forms (i. e., word) are supposed to form a “ mi ni mal
“pill ” and “bill ” , “pill ” and “till ” , “till ” and “dill ” , “till onstitated “kill ” , etc
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 English phonemes are. It is of great importance to find the mini mal pairs whe n a phono logist is deali ng with the sound system of an unknown Ian guage.
9. Free variation
If two sounds occurring in the same environment do not contrast; namely, if the substitution of one for the other does not gen erate a new word form but merely a differe nt pronun ciati on of the same word, the two sounds the n are said to be in
“ free variati on
10. Complementary distribution
When two sounds n ever occur in the same environment, they are in “ compleme ntaFoidistributio n 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.
11. Assimilation rule.
The “ assimilation rule "assimilates one segment to another by “ copying a feature of a sequential phon eme, thus making the two pho nes more similar.
12. Deletion rule
The “ deleti on ruletell uswhe n a sound is to be deleted although is orthographically represe nted.
13. Suprasegmental phonology and suprasegmental features
“ Suprasegme ntal pho no logy " refers to the study of phono logical properties of lin guistic un its larger tha n
the segme nt called phon eme, such as syllable, le ngth and pitch, stress, inton atio n.
Chapter 3. Morphology
1. Morpheme and Morphology
The “ morpheme” the smallest un it in terms of relati on ship betwee n expressi on and content, a un it which cannot be divided without destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical.
“ Morphology i”s the branch of grammar that studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed. It is generally divided into two fields: inflectional morphology and lexical/derivational morphology.
2. Types of Morphemes.
(1) free morpheme and bound morpheme
A “free morpheme ” is a morpheme that constitutes a word by itself, such as ,bed ”morpheme” is one that appears with at least another morpheme, such as -s” in “ bed-asl ”,“in“ “national
? i ??“tree ”
and so on.
All monomorphemic words are free morphemes. Those polymorphemic words are either compounds (combination of two or more free morphemes) or derivatives (word derived from free morphemes).
(2) . root; affix; stem
A “root ” is the base form of a word that cannot be further analyzed without total loss of identity. It is the part of the word that is left when all the affixes are removed.
“Affixes ”is a collective term for the type of morpheme that can be used only when added to another morpheme (the root or stem), so affix is naturally bound. (prefix, suffix, infix)
A “ stem ” is any morpheme or comnabtiion of morphemes to which an affix can be added.
(3) . Inflectional affix and derivational affix.
Inflectional affixes: do not change the word class, but only added a minute or delicate grammatical meaning to the stem. Derivational affixes: often change the lexical meaning and word class.
Inflectional affixes are mostly suffixes, and derivational affixes can be prefixes (sub-, de-) or suffixes (-er, -able).
3. Inflection
“ Inflection ” is the manifestation of grammatical relationships through the additi o fninflectional affixes,
such as number, person, finiteness, aspect, and case, which does not change the grammatical class of the items to which they are attached.
4. Word formation
In its restricted sense, refers to the process of word variations signaling lexical relationships. It can be future sub classified into the compositional type (compound) and the derivational type.
5. Lexical change
(1) lexical change proper( 特有词汇变化)
A. Invention
B. Blending: blending is relative complex from of compounding, in which two words are blended by joining the initial part of the first word and the final part of the second word, or by joining the initial parts of the two words.
C. Abbreviation: a new word is created by cutting the final part, the initial part, or both the initial and final parts accordingly.
D. Acronym: acronym is made up from the first letters of the name of an organization, which have a heavily modified headword.
E. Back-formation: it refers to an abnormal type of word-formation where a shorter word is derived by deleting an imagined affix from a longer form already in the language.
F. Analogical creation: it can account for the co-existence of the forms, regular and irregular, in the conjugation of some English verbs.
G. Borrowing:
a. loanwords: the borrowing of loanwords is a process in which both form and meaning are borrowed with only a slight adaptation, in some causes, to the phonological system of the new language that they enter.
b. loanblend: it is a process in which part of the form is native and the rest has been borrowed, but the meaning is fully borrowed.
c. loanshift: it is a process in which the meaning is borrowed, and the form is native.
d. loan translation: a special type of borrowing, in which each morpheme or word is translated in the equivalent morpheme or word in another languag
e.
（2）. Morpho-syntactical change （形态句法变化）
A. morphological change: the words have changed their forms
B. syntactical change
（3）. Semantic change （语义变化）
A. broading: a process to extend or elevate the meaning from its originally specific sense to a relative general one.
B. narrowing: it refers to a process in which the original meaning of a word can be narrowed or restricted to a specific sense.
C. meaning shift: the change of meaning has nothing to do with generalization or restriction.
D. fork etymology: it refers to a change in form of a word or phrase, resulting from an incorrect popular notion of the origin or meaning of the term on from the influence of more familiar terms mistakenly taken to be analogous.
（4）. Phological change （音位变化） Refers to changes in sound leading to change in form.
a. loss （语音的脱落）
b. addition （语音的增加）
c. metathesis （换位）
d. assimilation （同化）
（5）. Orthographic change （书写法变化）
Chapter Four. Syntax
1. Syntax.
“Syntax is”the study of the rules governing the ways in which words, word groups and phrases are
combined to form sentences in a language, or the study of the interrelationships between sentential elements.
2. Sentence.
L. Bloomfield defines “sentenceas”an independent linguistic form not included by some grammatical marks
in any other linguistic from, i. e., it is not subordinated to a larger linguistic form, and it is a structurally
independent linguistic form. It is also called a maximum free form.
3. Syntactic relations.
“Syntacticrelations re”fer to the ways in which words, word groups or phrases form sentences; hence three
kinds of syntactic relations: positional relations, relations of substitutability and relations of co-occurrence.
a. “Positional relation ”, or “word order ”, refers rtroanthgeemseeqnutetnotiwaolards in a language.
It is a manifestation of a certain aspect of what F. de Saussure called “
syntagmatic rela of what other linguists call “ horizontal relations ” or “chain relations
b. “Relationsof substitutability refer”to classes or sets of words substitutable for each other grammatically in same
sentence structures. Saussure called them “associativerelations O”th.er
people call them “ paradigmatic/vertical/choice relations ”.
c. “Relations of co-occurrence ”one, 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. Thus relations of co-occurrence partly belong to syntagmatic relations and partly to paradigmatic relations.
3. Grammatical construction
Grammatical construction: it can be used to mean any syntactic construct which is assigned one or more conventional function in a language, together with whatever is linguistically conventionalized about its contribution to the meaning or use the construct contains.
4. IC analysis and immediate constituents.
“IC analysis ” is a new approach of sentence study that cuts a sentence into two (or more) segments. This kind of pure segmentation is simply dividing a sentence into its constituent elements without even knowing what they really are. What remain of the first cut is called “ immediate constituents ”, and what are left at the final cut is called “ ultimate constituents ”.
5. Endocentric and exocentric constructions
“ Endocentric construction ” 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 noun phrases, verb phrases and adjective phrases
or belong to endocentric types because the constituent items are subordinate to the head.
“ Exocentric construction ”, opposite of endocentric construction, refers to a group of syntactically related words where none of the words is functionally equivalent to the group as whole; that is to say, there is no definable centre or head inside the group. Exocentric construction usually includes basic sentence, prepositional phrase, predicate (verb + object) construction, and connective (be + complement) construction.
6. Coordination and subordination.
They are two main types of endocentric construction.
Coordination is a common syntactic pattern in English and other languages formed by grouping together two of 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. (three basic types of subordination clause: complement clause, adjunct clause, relation clause.)
7. Syntactic function
(1) Subject: “ subject re”fers to one of the nouns in the nominative case. In English, the subject of a
sentence is often said to be the doer of the action, while the object is the person or thing acted upon by the doer.
a. Grammatical subject: it refers to a noun which can establish correspondence with the verb and which can be checked by a tag-question test, e.g., “He is a good cook, (isn?t he?). ”
b. Logical subject: the original object noun phrase occupies the grammatical space before a verb, the space that a subject normally occupies, the core subject, now the object of a preposition, is called the logical subject.
(2) . Predicate: A “ predicate ” refers to a major constituent oefnstence structure in a binary analysis in which all obligatory constituents other than the subject are considered together. e.g., in the sentence
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monkey is jumping ”, “is jumisptihnegpred”icate.
(3) Object : “ object ” refers to the receiver or goal aonf action and it is further classified into two kinds: direct object and indirect object. In some inflecting languages, an object is marked by case labels: the
“ accusativecase ”for direct object, and the “ dativecase ”for direct object, and the “ dativecase ”for indirect to word order (after the verb and preposition) and by inflections (of pronouns). e.g., in the sentence “John kissed me ”, “me” is the
Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics 1.3 Design features of language The features that define our human languages can be called design features which can distinguish human language from any animal system of communication. 1.3.1 Arbitrariness Arbitrariness refers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meanings. 1.3.2 Duality Duality refers to the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level and each of the two levels has its own principles of organization. 1.3.3 Creativity Creativity means that language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. Recursiveness refers to the rule which can be applied repeatedly without any definite limit. The recursive nature of language provides a theoretical basis for the possibility of creating endless sentences. 1.3.4 Displacement Displacement 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. 加1 Each sound in the language is treated as discrete. 加2 the direct/non-arbitrary/non-symbolic relation between meaning and form. There are resemblances between the language form and what they refer to. That relationship is called icon. Iconicity exists in sounds, lexicons and syntax. It is the motivation between language forms and meanings. It is a relation of resemblance between language form and what they refer to. 1.5 Functions of language As is proposed by Jacobson, language has six functions: 1. Referential: to convey message and information; 2. Poetic: to indulge in language for its own sake; 3. Emotive: to express attitudes, feelings and emotions; 4. Conative: to persuade and influence others through commands and entreaties; 5. Phatic: to establish communion with others; 6. Metalingual: to clear up intentions, words and meanings. three metafunctions: 1. function: to convey new information, to communicate a content that is
Chapter 2 Speech sounds Contents ?How sounds are made? ?Consonants and vowels ?Phonological processes, phonological rules and distinctive features ?Suprasegmentals 超音段 ?Two major areas for studying speech sounds: phonetics and phonology ?Phonetics: it studies how speech sounds are made, transmitted and perceived. ?Three branches of phonetics: ?Articulatory phonetics发声语音学 is the study of the production of speech sounds. ?Acoustic phonetics声学语音学 is the study of the physical properties of the sounds produced in speech. Auditory phonetics听觉语音学 is concerned with the perception of speech sounds ?Phonology：it deals with the sound system of a language by treating phoneme 音素 as the point of departure. ?It studies the sound patterns and sound systems of languages. ?Ultimately it aims to discover the rules that underlie the sound patterns of all languages. How speech sounds are made? ? speech organs 言语器官 ?Speech organs are also known as vocal organs（发音器官）. ?Parts of human body involved in the production of speech sounds: lungs, trachea (windpipe) 气管, throat, nose, mouth ? organs of speech (Figure 2.2, p.26 on our books)
Literary linguistics studies the language of literature. It focuses on the study of linguistic features related to literary style. 9.1 Theoretical background
9.2.1 Foregrounding and grammatical form 9.2.2 Literal language and figurative language Simile Metaphor Metonymy Synecdoche 9.2.3 The analysis of literary language
9.3.1 Sound patterning 9.3.2 Different forms of sound patterning Rhyme Alliteration Assonance Consonance Reverse rhyme Pararhyme Repitition
-Metre(Dimetre, Trimetre, Tetrametre, Hexametre, Heptametre, Octametre) -Foot (Iamb, Trochee, Anapest, Dactyl,Spondee, Pyrrhic) 9.3.4 Conventional forms of metre and sound Couplets Quatrains Blank verse Sonnet 9.3.5 The poetic functions of sound and metre 9.3.6 How to analyse poetry?
第11章第二语言和外语教学 11.1 复习笔记 本章要点： 1. The relation between linguistics and language teaching 语言学与语言教学之间的关系 2. Grammar, input and language learning 语法、输入与语言学习 3. Interlanguage in language teaching 语言教学中的中介语 4. Linguistics and syllabus design 语言学与教学大纲设计 5. Contrastive analysis and error analysis 对比分析与错误分析 6. Corpus linguistics and language teaching 语料库语言学与语言教学 常考考点： 语言学与语言教学的关系；语言学与语言学习；语言学与教学大纲设计；二语学习者的主要障碍；对比分析与错误分析；中介语；语料库语言学与语言教学等。
本章内容索引： I. Definition of Applied Linguistics II. The Relation between Linguistics and Language Teaching III. Linguistics and Language Learning 1. Grammar and Language Learning 2. Input and Language Learning 3. Interlanguage in Language Learning IV. Linguistics and Language T eaching 1. The discourse-based view of language teaching 2. The universal grammar (UG) and language teaching V. Syllabus Design 1. Syllabus and curriculum 2. Theoretical views behind syllabus design 3. Types of syllabus (1) The structural syllabus (2) The situational syllabus (3) The communicative syllabus (4) The task-based syllabus 4. Current trends in syllabus design (1) The co-existence of the old and the new (2) The emphasis on the learning process
英语语言学教程（胡壮麟版） Chapter one. Invitation to Linguistic. 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 intrinsic 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, “shu” in Ch inese. It is symbolic, 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 languages. 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 written. The term “human” in the definition is meant to specify that language is human specific. 2.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 interchangeability (1)Arbitrariness: By “arbitrariness”, we mean there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. (2)Duality: The property of having two levels of structures (phonological and grammatical), units of the primary level being composed of elements of the secondary level and each level having its own principles of organization. (3)Productivity: Productivity refers to the ability to the ability to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of sentences in one’s native language, including those that has never heard before, but that are appropriate to the speaking situation. The property that enables native speakers to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of utterances, including utterances that they have never previously encountered. (4)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. (5)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. (6)Interchangeability: Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of messages. 3.Functions of Language. Language has at least seven functions: phatic, directive, Informative, interrogative, expressive, evocative and performative. (1)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. (2)Directive function: The “directive function” means that language may be used to get the hearer
英语语言学教程(胡壮麟版) Chapter one. Invitation to Linguistic. 1. What is language? “ Languageis 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 intrinsic connection between a work (like “book”) and the object it refers to. This explains a is explained by the fact that different languages have different “ books ”“:book ”in English, “ livre in” French, “shu” ii n eCseh. It is symbolic, 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 languages. 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 written. The term “ human” in the definition is meant to specify that language is human specific. 2. 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 interchangeability (1) Arbitrariness: By “ arbitrariness ”, we mean there is no logical connection between meanings and sounds. (2) Duality: The property of having two levels of structures (phonological and grammatical), units of the primary level being composed of elements of the secondary level and each level having its own principles of organization. (3) Productivity: Productivity refers to the ability to the ability to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of sentences in one?s native language, including those that has never heard before, but that are appropriate to the speaking situation. The property that enables native speakers to construct and understand an indefinitely large number of utterances, including utterances that they have never previously encountered. (4) 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. (5) 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. (6) Interchangeability: Interchangeability means that any human being can be both a producer and a receiver of messages. 3. Functions of Language. Language has at least seven functions: phatic, directive, Informative, interrogative, expressive, evocative and performative. (1) Phatic function: The “ phaticfunction r”efers 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. (2) Directive function: The “ directive function ”thamt laenagnusage may be used to get the hearer to do something. Most imperative sentences perform this function, e. g., “Tell me the res you finish. ” (3) 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). (4) Interrogative function: When language is used to obtain information, it serves an “ interrogat
第12章现代语言学理论与流派 12.1 复习笔记 本章要点： 1. The Prague School and Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) 布拉格学派与功能句子观 2. The London School and context of situation 伦敦学派与语境观 3. Halliday and Systemic-Functional Grammar 韩礼德与系统——功能语法 4. Bloomfield and American Structuralism 布隆菲尔德与美国结构主义 5. Chomsky and Transformational-Generative Grammar 乔姆斯基与转换——生成语法 常考考点： 各流派的代表人物、理论基础、特点、主要观点、重要概念；语言普遍性和人类行为关系等。 本章内容索引：
I. Saussure and modern linguistics II. The Prague School 1. Main points and contribution 2. Functional Sentence Perspective (FSP) 3. Communicative Dynamism (CD) III. The London School 1. Introduction 2. Malinowski’s theories 3. Firth’s theories 4. Halliday and Systemic-Functional Grammar 5. Systemic grammar and Functional grammar (1) Systemic grammar (2) Functional grammar IV. American Structuralism 1. Introduction 2. Three stages of the development V. Transformational-Generative Grammar 1. Introduction 2. The Innateness Hypothesis 3. Generative Grammar 4. Stage of development of TG Grammar 5. Main features of TG Grammar
语言学：It studies how speech sounds are produced,transmitted,and perceived.研究语音的发生、传递和感知 2. Articulatory phonetics发音语言学: the study of production of speechsounds.研究语言的发生 phonetics声学语言学：is the study of physical properties of speech sounds.研究语音的物质特征 or Auditory phonetics感知语音学或听觉语音学：is concerned with the perception of speech sounds.研究语音的感知 音系学is the study of the sound patterns and sound systems of languages.研究各种语言的语音模式和语音系统 6. IPA国际音标表: the abbreviation of International Phonetic Alphabet 变音符:are additional symbols or marks used together with the consonant and vowel symbols to indicate nuances of change in their pronunciation.是与元音或辅音符号结合使用的一些附加符号或记号，用于表示元音或辅音在发音上的微小变化 辅音: are sound segments produced by constricting or obstructing the vocal tract at some place to divert,impede,or completely shut off the flow of air in the oral cavity.声道紧闭，或声道变窄的程度达到无法 9. Vowl元音:are sound segments produced without such obstruction,so no turbulence of a total stopping of the air can be perceived.气流可以相对不受阻碍的从口腔或鼻腔中排出
Chapter3 Lexicon Lexical change
3.1 What is word? 3.1.1 Three senses of word 3.1.2 Identification of words 1) stability 2) Relative uninterruptibility 3) A minimum free form 3.1.3 Classification of words 1) Variable and invariable words 2) Grammatical words and lexical words 3) closed-class words and open
3.2 The Formation of Word 3.2.1 Morpheme and Morphology Morpheme destroying or drastically altering the meaning, whether it is lexical or grammatical. 2) Morphology which studies the internal structure of words, and the rules by which words are formed.
3.2.2 Types of morphemes 1) Free morpheme and bound morpheme 2) Root, affix and stem 3) Inflectional affix and derivational affix ?Inflectional affixes often only add a minute or delicate grammat to the stem, therefore serve to produce different forms of a sin derivational affixes often change the lexical meaning. ?Inflectional affixes do not change the word class of the word th whereas derivational affixes might or might not. ?Inflectional affixes are conditioned by the word they attach to but within the phrase or sentence; deriv
第7章Language, Culture and Society 第一部分Language and culture 一、Language and culture 语言与文化的关系 In a broad sense, culture means the total way of a people, including the patterns of beliefs, language, institutions, techniques, customs, and objects that shape the life of the human community. In a narrow sense, culture may mean local or specific practice, beliefs or customs, which can be found in folk culture, enterprise culture or food culture etc. The relationships are as follows: (1) Culture is a wider system that includes language as a subsystem. The relation of language to culture is that of part to whole. (2) Culture affects language. Culture universals and biological universals lead to linguistic universals. E.g. the seven days of a week. In addition, different cultural features produce different linguistic features. E.g. “24 jie qi” in Chinese. (3) Language both expresses and embodies cultural reality. A language not only expresses facts, ideas, or events which represent similar world knowledge by its people, but also reflects the people’s beliefs, attitudes and world outlooks etc. (4) Language plays an important role in perpetuating culture over time, especially, in print form. Therefore, on the one hand, language as an integral part of human beings, runs through his thinking and way of viewing the world. On the other hand, language, as a product of culture, helps perpetuate the culture. 二、The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis This hypothesis suggests that our language helps mould our way of thinking and, consequently, different languages may probably express speaker’s unique ways of understanding the world. Following this argument, there are two important points in this theory. On the one hand, language may determine our thinking patterns; on the other hand, similarity between languages is relative. And this hypothesis has alternatively been referred to as linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity. Consequently, two versions of the hypothesis have been developed, a strong and a weak version. The strong version of the theory refers to the claim the original hypothesis makes, emphasizing the decisive role of language as the shaper of our thinking patterns. The weak version 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. 三、Culture in language teaching classroom? 怎样实现；两者关系 There are at least three objectives for us to teach culture in our class: (1)To get the students familiar with cultural differences; (2)To help the students transcend their own culture and see things as the members of the target culture will; (3)To emphasize the inseparability of understanding language and understanding culture through various classroom practices. Therefore, successful mastery of a given language has much to do with an understanding of that culture, because language and culture are correlated with each other at different levels of linguistic structure. 四、Firth 语境说的观点 Firth tried to set up a model to illustrate the close relationships between language use and its co-occurrent factors. He developed the theory of context of situation: