Supplementary Exercises to Chapter 5 Semantics
I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:
1. Dialectal synonyms can often be found in different regional dialects
such as British English and American English but cannot be found within the variety itself, for example, within British English or American English.
2. Sense is concerned with the relationship between the linguistic element
and the non-linguistic world of experience, while the reference deals with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
3. Linguistic forms having the same sense may have different references
in different situations.
4. In semantics, meaning of language is considered as the intrinsic and
inherent relation to the physical world of experience.
5. Contextualism is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning
from or reduce meaning to observable contexts.
6. Behaviourists attempted to define the meaning of a language form as
the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer.
7. The meaning of a sentence is the sum total of the meanings of all
its components.
8. Most languages have sets of lexical items similar in meaning but
ranked differently according to their degree of formality.
9. “it is hot.” is a no-place predication because it contains no
argument.
10. In grammatical analysis, the sentence is taken to be the basic unit,
but in semantic analysis of a sentence, the basic unit is predication, which is the abstraction of the meaning of a sentence.
II. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given:
11. S________ can be defined as the study of meaning.
12. The conceptualist view holds that there is no d______ link between
a linguistic form and what it refers to.
13. R______ 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.
14. Words that are close in meaning are called s________.
15. When two words are identical in sound, but different in spelling and
meaning, they are called h__________.
16.R_________ opposites are pairs of words that exhibit the reversal of
a relationship between the two items.
17. C ____ analysis is based upon the belief that the meaning of a word
can be divided into meaning components.
18. Whether a sentence is semantically meaningful is governed by rules
called s________ restrictions, which are constraints on what lexical items can go with what others.
19. An a________ is a logical participant in a predication, largely
identical with the nominal element(s) in a sentence.
20. According to the n ____ theory of meaning, the words in a language
are taken to be labels of the objects they stand for.
III. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:
21. The naming theory is advanced by ________.
A. Plato
B. Bloomfield
C. Geoffrey Leech
D. Firth
22. “We shall know a word by the company it keeps.” This statement represents _______.
A. the conceptualist view
B. contexutalism
C. the naming theory
D.behaviourism
23. Which of the following is not true?
A. Sense is concerned with the inherent meaning of the linguistic form.
B. Sense is the collection of all the features of the linguistic form.
C. Sense is abstract and de-contextualized.
D. Sense is the aspect of meaning dictionary compilers are not interested
in.
24. “Can I borrow your bike?” _______ “ You have a bike.”
A. is synonymous with
B. is inconsistent with
C. entails
D. presupposes
25. ___________ is a way in which the meaning of a word can be dissected
into meaning components, called semantic features.
A. Predication analysis
B. Componential analysis
C. Phonemic analysis
D. Grammatical analysis
26. “alive” and “dead” are ______________.
A. gradable antonyms
B. relational opposites
C. complementary antonyms
D. None of the above
27. _________ deals with the relationship between the linguistic element
and the non-linguistic world of experience.
A. Reference
B. Concept
C. Semantics
D. Sense
28. ___________ refers to the phenomenon that words having different
meanings have the same form.
A. Polysemy
B. Synonymy
C. Homonymy
D. Hyponymy
29. Words that are close in meaning are called ______________.
A. homonyms
B. polysemy
C. hyponyms
D. synonyms
30. The grammaticality of a sentence is governed by _______.
A. grammatical rules
B. selectional restrictions
C. semantic rules
D. semantic features
IV. Define the following terms:
31. semantics 32. sense
33 . reference 34. synonymy
35. polysemy 36. homonymy
37. homophones 38. Homographs
39. complete homonyms 40. hyponymy
41.antonymy 42 componential analysis
43.grammatical meaning 44. predication
45. Argument 46. predicate
47. Two-place predication
V. Answer the following questions:
48. Why do we say that a meaning of a sentence is not the sum total
of the meanings of all its components?
49. What is componential analysis? Illustrate it with examples.
50. How do you distinguish between entailment and presupposition in
terms of truth values?
51. How do you account for such sense relations between sentences as
synonymous relation, inconsistent relation in terms of truth values?
52. According to the way synonyms differ, how many groups can we
classify synonyms into? Illustrate them with examples.
53. What are the major views concerning the study of meaning? How they
differ?
I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False:
l.F 2.F 3.T 4.F 5.T 6.T 7.F 8.T 9.T 10.T
II. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given:
11. Semantics 12. direct 13.Reference 14. synonyms 15.homophones 16.Relational 17. Componential 18. selectional 19. argument 20. naming III. There are four choices following each statement. Mark the choice that can best complete the statement:
2l.A 22.B 23.D 24.D 25.B 26.C 27.A 28.C 29.D 30.A
IV. Define the following terms:
31. Semantics: Semantics can be simply defined as the study of meaning
in language.
32. 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 de -contextualised.
33. 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
34. Synonymy :Synonymy refers to the sameness or close similarity of
meaning.
35. Polysemy :Polysemy refers to the fact that the same one word may have
more than one meaning.
36. Homonymy :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.
37. homophones :When two words are identical in sound, they are called
homophones
38. homographs :When two words are identical in spelling, they are
homographs.
39. complete homonyms.:When two words are identical in both sound and
spelling, they are called complete homonyms.
40.Hyponymy :Hyponymy refers to the sense relation between a more general,
more inclusive word and a more specific word.
41. Antonymy :Antonymy refers to the relation of oppositeness of meaning.
42. Componential analysis : Componential analysis is a way to analyze word
meaning. It was proposed by structural semanticists. The approach is based on the belief that the meaning of a -word can be divided into meaning components, which are called semantic features.
43.The grammatical meaning : The grammatical meaning of a sentence refers
to its grammaticality, i.e. , its grammatical well-formedness . The grammaticality of a sentence is governed by the grammatical rules of the language.
44. predication :The predication is the abstraction of the meaning of a
sentence.
45. argument : An argument is a logical participant in a predication. It
is generally identical with the nominal element (s) in a sentence.
46. predicate : A predicate is something that is said about an argument
or it states the logical relation linking the arguments in a sentence.
47. two-place predication : A two-place predication is one which
contains two arguments.
V. Answer the following questions:
48. Why do we say that a meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of
the meanings of all its components?
The meaning of a sentence is not the sum total of the meanings of all its components because it cannot be worked out by adding up all the meanings of its constituent words. For example;
(A) The dog bit the man.
(B) The man bit the dog.
If the meaning of a sentence were the sum total of the meanings of all its components, then the above two sentences would have the same meaning. In fact they are different in meanings.
As we know, there are two aspects to sentence meaning: grammatical mean ing and semantic meaning. The grammatical meanings of “the dog” and “the man” in (A) are different from the grammatical meanings of “the dog” and “the man” in (B). The meaning of a sentence is the product of both lexical and grammatical meaning. It is the product of the meaning of the constituent words and of the grammatical constructions that relate one word syntagmatically to another.
49. What is componential analysis? Illustrate it with examples.
Componential analysis, proposed by structural semanticists, is a way to analyze word meaning. The approach is based on the belief that the meaning of a word can be divided into meaning components, which are called semantic features. Plus and minus signs are used to indicate whether a certain semantic feature is present or absent in the meaning of a word, and these feature symbols are usually written in capitalized letters. For example, the word “man” is ana lyzed as consisting of the semantic features of [+ HUMAN, + ADULT, + ANIMATE, +MALE]
50. How do you distinguish between entailment and presupposition in
terms of truth values?
Entailment is a relation of inclusion. Suppose there are two sentences X and Y:
X: He has been to France.
Y: He has been to Europe.
In terms of truth values, if X is true, Y is necessarily true, e.g. If
he has been to France, he must have been to Europe.
If X is false, Y may be true or false, e. g. If he has not been to France, he may still have been to Europe or he has not been to Europe. If Y is true, X may be true or false, e.g. If he has been to Europe, he may or may not have been to France.
If Y is false, X is false, e.g. If he has not been to Europe, he cannot have been to France.
Therefore we conclude that X entails Y or Y is an entailment of X. The truth conditions that we use to judge presupposition is as follows: Suppose there are two sentences X and Y
X: John' s bike needs repairing.
Y: John has a bike.
If X is true, Y must be true, e.g. If John' s bike needs repairing, John must have a bike.
If X is false, Y is still true, e. g. If John' s bike does not need repairing, John still has a bike. If Y is true, X is either true or false, e.g. If John has a bike, it may or may not need repairing. If Y is false, no truth value can be said about X, e.g. If John does not have a bike, nothing can be said about whether his bike needs repairing or not. Therefore, X presupposes Y, or Y is a presupposition of X.
51. How do you account for such sense relations between sentences as
synonymous relation, inconsistent relation in terms of truth values? In terms of truth condition, of the two sentences X and Y, if X is true, Y is true; if X is false, Y is false, therefore X is synonymous with Y
e.g. X; He was a bachelor all his life.
Y: He never married all his life.
Of the two sentences X and Y, if X is true, Y is false; if X is false, Y is true, then we can say A is inconsistent with Y
e.g. X: John is married.
Y: John is a bachelor.
52. According to the ways synonyms differ, how many groups can we
classify synonyms into? Illustrate them with examples.
According to the ways synonyms differ, synonyms can be divided into the following groups.
i. Dialectal synonyms
They are synonyms which are used in different regional dialects.
British English and American English are the two major geographical varieties of the English language. For examples:
British English American English
autumn fall
lift elevator
Then dialectal synonyms can also be found within British, or American English itself. For example, "girl" is called "lass" or "lassie" in Scottish dialect, and "liquor" is called "whisky" in Irish dialect.
ii. Stylistic synonyms
They are synonyms which differ in style or degree of formality. Some of the stylistic synonyms tend to be more formal, others tend to be casual, and still others are neutral in style. For example:
old man, daddy, dad, father, male parent
chap, pal, friend, companion
iii. Synonyms that differ in their emotive or evaluative meaning
They are the words that have the same meaning but express different emotions of the user. The emotions of the user indicate the attitude or bias of the user toward what he is talking about .For example, “collaborator” and “accomplice” are synonymous, sharing the meaning of "a person who helps another", but they are different in their evaluative meaning. The former means that a person who helps another in doing something good, while the latter refers to a person who helps another in a criminal act.
iv. Collocational synonyms
They are synonyms which differ in their collocation. For example, we can use accuse, charge, rebuke to say that someone has done something wrong or even criminal, but they are used with different prepositions accuse. . . of, charge. . . with, rebuke. . .for.v. V. Semantically different synonyms Semantically different synonyms refer to the synonyms that differ slight-
ly in what they mean. For example, "amaze" and "astound" are very close in meaning to the word "surprise," but they have very subtle differences in meaning. While amaze suggests confusion and bewilderment, " astound" implies difficulty in believing. "
53. What are the major views concerning the study of meaning? How do they
differ?
One of the oldest was the naming theory, proposed by the ancient Greek scholar Plato, who believed that the words used in a language are taken to be labels of the objects they stand for. The conceptualist view holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers to. The form and the meaning are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind. Contextualism is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from or reduce meaning to observable contexts. Two kinds of context are recognized; the situational context and the linguistic context.
For example, the meaning of the word "seal" in the sentence "The seal could not be found" can only be determined according to the context in which the sentence occurs:
The seal could not be found. The zoo keeper became worried.
(seal meaning an aquatic mammal) The seal could not be found. The king became worried.
(seal meaning the king's stamp)
Behaviorism drew on behaviorist psychology when he tried to define the meaning of linguistic forms. Behaviorists attempted to define the meaning of a language form as " the situation in which the speaker utters it and the response it calls forth in the hearer".
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英语专业考研语言学复习题附答案 Chapter I Introduction I. Decide whether each of the following statements is True or False: 1. Linguistics is generally defined as the scientific study of language. 2.Linguistics studies particular language, not languages in general. 3. A scientific study of language is based on what the linguist thinks. 4. In the study of linguistics, hypotheses formed should be based on language facts and checked against the observed facts. 5. General linguistics is generally the study of language as a whole. 6. General linguistics, which relates itself to the research of other areas, studies the basic concepts, theories, descriptions, models and methods applicable in any linguistic study. 7. Phonetics is different from phonology in that the latter studies the combinations of the sounds to convey meaning in communication. 8. Morphology studies how words can be formed to produce meaningful sentences. 9. The study of the ways in which morphemes can be combined to form words is called morphology. 10. Syntax is different from morphology in that the former not only studies the morphemes, but also the combination of morphemes into words and words into sentences. 11. The study of meaning in language is known as semantics. 12. Both semantics and pragmatics study meanings. 13. Pragmatics is different from semantics in that pragmatics studies meaning not in isolation, but in context. 14. Social changes can often bring about language changes. 15. Sociolinguistics is the study of language in relation to society. 16. Modern linguistics is mostly prescriptive, but sometimes descriptive. 17. Modern linguistics is different from traditional grammar. 18. A diachronic study of language is the description of language at some point in time. 19 Modern linguistics regards the written language as primary, not the written language. 20. The distinction between competence and performance was proposed by F. de Saussure. II. Fill in each of the following blanks with one word which begins with the letter given: 21. Ch omsky defines “ competence” as the ideal user’s k__________ of the rules of his language. https://www.doczj.com/doc/5a5585679.html,ngue refers to the a__________ linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community while the parole is the concrete use of the conventions and application of the rules. 23.D_________ is one of the design features of human language which refers to the phenomenon that language consists of two levels: a lower level of meaningless
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南京师范大学英语语言学考研复试经验 南师英语语言文学下的语言学方向和外应初试和复试考的是一样的，只是进去后的研究方向不同。 楼主初试总分398，排名第二，政治68，日语94，专业一117，专业二119，复试笔试122，面试80，口语82，最后综合排名也是第二。 查分后，对结果不满意的，可以申请复查，但基本不会有变动。 看过17年的题，比16年略微简单点，所以分数线应该会偏高一点。去年外应最高分402，然后就是398，397，393，389。英语语言文学初试最高399，录取的最低为373。 这个复试线基本就是按照大家的成绩来确定的(当然，最后扩招的话，就另当别论了。我们去年是扩招了，今年不清楚。上课到现在，老师也没给我们透露过，这样也好，对大家都公平)。去年是1:1.2的比例确定进复试名额的，比如总共招5个人，那么进复试的有6个人。这个比例还算好的。我闺蜜，去年考陕师大，1:2的比例，对半刷，比南师狠。 那么重点来了，去年，我们可以给学长(南师研究生贴吧里有学长可以帮忙查排名，具体帖子自己去找)发邮件，查排名，然后按照1:1.2的比例，结合招生官网的录取人数，就可以算出来自己能不能进复试。南师不给排名，搞得很多分数处于边缘的同学很纠结，所以知道排名还是很有用的。貌似有人说今年学长不干了，这个我就不清楚了，有心的同学自己去贴吧找找看。 群 那么如果真的不能通过学长查了，那就得靠你们自己了。 另外，复试分面试和笔试，具体的复试经验我之前都说过了。
最后的重点来了，语言学方向的同学，不管是外应还是英语语言文学下的语言学，复试的考题和初试不太一样，所以真题是很有价值的。那么真题找谁呢，你懂的。某号，就无散领斯伊斯无就。如果辨别不出来这个号，那我也无能为力了。最后祝大家好运。在美丽的随园校区等大家来。 特别要说的是，复试的压力绝对在初试之上。总共名额9个，推免推了5个，留给我们这些参加考试的就只有4个名额了。而且复试全考专业课，考的不仅细，就题目本身来说，较初试还上升了一个难度，挺有挑战性的。最最关键的，它超钢，会考到其他书里的东西。所以，真题是极其有价值的。当时就是买了去年考上的学姐的复试资料。南师复试还是比较公平的，以实力说话，而且复试也绝不是走过场，你要付出比初试更大的努力。楼主当时准备复试，前后差不多一个月，把戴的书过了3遍，买的资料过了2～3遍，时间紧，任务重，压力大，就这么熬过了3月份，最终结果很欣慰，笔试122。另外，楼主每天会跟读一会儿新概念2，因为面试也是很重要的。 以上内容为仙林南师大考研网整理的英语语言文学考研知识点，如果同学还想获得更多英语语言文学考研资料，可以加入我们的南京师范大学考研复试交流群还可获得超强院校专业信息、每日打卡监督学习、研究生学姐答疑，不定期奖励活动等。
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 Overview 1.1 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. Duality B. Arbitrariness C. Creativity D. 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) Reflexivity 1.3 Functions of language (i) The ideational function (ii) The interpersonal function (iii) The textual function Which of the following does not belong to the language metafunctions illustrated by
语言学的资料很少，看完书后想找些习题或往年试题做做，可以起到练兵，巩固所看书本知识的作用。我收集了一些高校语言学的往年试题供大家参考，讨论，交流一下做题的感受，也希望大家可以把自己所考学校的往年试题发表在上面，给大家一起讨论。 1 One of the main features of our human language is arbitrariness .Can you briefly explain what is this feature refers to ? Give examples if necessary(10 points). < 北师大2003年试题） 2 In english we can describe a story as "a successful story" or "a success story ".Do you think they mean the same ? Please explain and give your reasons(10 points) ,< 同上》 3 Expain the following terms ,giving examples where necessary.(50 points) <中山2003》 design feature macrolinguistics vowel minimal pair folk etymology aspect anopho r error analysisr metaphor 4 Language can change through blending ,metanalysis ,back-formation, analogical creation and borrowing.Give two english words for each of them ( 5 points) 清华 2000年试题 5 Answer the following question briefly.clearly,grammatically and correctly.(10 Points ) 湖南师大2003年 What is it wrong to assume that the meaning of a sentence is the sum of the meaning of the words which compose it ? 7 Define the following terms.(10 points) 中国海洋大学1999 Phoneme ,consonant,morpheme,lexicon,syntax,endocentric construction,semantics,hyponymy ,language ,design feature 8 Define the following terms .(20 points) 苏州大学1997 allophone morpheme assimilation internal authority interlanguage phatic communion closed-class word government semantica triangic lingua franca
一、课程性质及其设置目的与要求 （一）课程性质和特点 《英语语言学概论》课程是我省高等教育自学考试英语专业（本科段）的一门重要的专业理论课程，其任务是培养应考者系统地学习英语语言学的基本知识，掌握语言系统内部语言学各分支之间的关系和各分支的重要概念和基本理论，了解语言学在其它学科领域的应用，熟悉现代语言学重要的流派及其代表人物；通过该课程的学习，考生可以从不同的角度了解语言（的性质），了解语言学习和语言教学，为日后进一步学习语言学、从事语言教学实践和语言学研究打下扎实基础。本课程的特点是：专业术语多，概念多，内容抽象，所以，考生最好在学习本课程之前先学习提高语言读写能力的课程，如高级英语、泛读（三）、写作等，这样可以减少语言障碍，有利于学好语言学的理论知识。 （二）本课程的基本要求 本课程共分为本书共分四编，计十三章。第一编（一至二章）介绍了语言和语言学；第二编（三至八章）介绍了语言学的主要分支—语音学、音位学、形态学、句法学、语义学和语用学；第三编（九至十二章）为跨学科领域与应用—话语分析、社会语言学、心理语言学，以及语言学理论与外语教学；第四编（十三章）介绍了现代语言学流派。通过对本书的学习，要求应考者对英语语言学有一个全面和正确的了解。具体应达到以下要求： 1、掌握语言的性质、功能，以及语言学的研究范围、语言学的分支和重要的语言学概念； 2、掌握语言系统内部语言学各分支之间的关系和各分支的重要概念和基本理论； 3、了解语言学在其它学科领域的应用； 4、熟悉现代语言学重要的流派及其代表人物。 （三）本课程与相关课程的联系 英语语言学概论是一门基础理论课程，其含盖范围很广，既涉及语言系统内部的语音学、音位学、形态学、句法学、语义学和语用学，又涉及许多交叉学科，如话语分析、社会语言学、心理语言学、应用语用学（包括语言学理论与外语教学），以及本教程未涉及的神经认知语言学、计算机语言学、人工智能与机器翻译等。语言学的进一步研究甚至会涉及到哲学、逻辑学等领域。 在自考课程中，词汇学与语言学关系最为密切，词汇学的许多概念、理论和研究方法都来源于语言学。高级英语、泛读（三）、写作、翻译等课程则是学好语言学的基础。文学与语言学并非对立的关系，这两个领域的研究方法可以互相补充、互相借鉴，日后无论从事语言学还是文学研究，这两个领域都必须同时涉猎。 二、课程内容与考核目标
导言 0.1 复习笔记 一、语言学的对象和学科性质 （一）语言学的研究对象 语言学是研究语言的科学，语言是语言学的研究对象。 1．语言现象 语言现象是人类社会普遍具有的现象，它是最早纳入人类研究视野的现象之一。 （1）人类对于世界上的各种自然现象和社会现象的理性认识以及相关的许多抽象观念，是在各个古典文明形成的时期出现的。有关语言的理性思考也是从这一时期开始的。 （2）中国先秦时期的思想家、古希腊的哲学家、古代印度的思想家等，都提出了对语言的一般看法，并且对后人产生了深远影响。这是对语言的最早的理性认识。 2．语言学的发展过程 （1）语言学的三大发源地 在各个文明的发展过程中，古代文化典籍的传承成为文化发展延续的重要途径。这些政治、哲学、宗教、历史、文学等方面的经典著作要得到学习和继承，都需要语言方面的分析和解释。这样，在许多有着悠久历史文化传统的地区都出现了语文学研究，这是语言的系统研究的开始。中国、印度和希腊—罗马在传统语文学的研究上都取得了辉煌成就，是语言学的三大发源地。 （2）语言学三大发源地的成就 ①中国传统语言研究
a．先秦时期已经出现大量的文化典籍，它们所使用的古代书面语体被后人学习继承，称作文言文。直至20世纪初，正式的书面语一直使用这种文言文的形式。 b．中国传统的语言研究主要是围绕解读文言文典籍的需要进行的，主要是分析汉字的形体，探求它的古代读音和意义，形成了统称“小学”的文字、音韵、训诂之学，也就是中国传统的语文学。 ②古代印度语言研究 a．在印度，文化经典主要是宗教典籍，所用的语言是古代的梵语。最初这些经典是靠口耳相传，后来由文字记载下来。 b．古代印度的语言研究主要是对这些宗教经典的解读。古代印度的学者在对语言一般性质的认识以及具体的语音和语法研究等方面都有卓越建树，对世界其他地区的语言研究也产生了深远影响。 ③西欧语言研究 a．古希腊有丰富的文化典籍，语文学非常发达，已经有了系统的语法研究成果。 b．罗马人继承了古希腊的语言研究传统，形成了拉丁语的语法研究体系。 c．西欧各国有一千多年时间在正式的场合都使用古典拉丁语，语言研究主要围绕拉丁语进行，语法、修辞、逻辑成为学校传授的主课，编出了种种语法、词典和读本，逐渐形成了传统的西方语言学。 （二）语言学的学科性质 1．语文学时期的语言研究不是独立的学科
I. Fill in the blanks. 1. The features that define our human languages can be call ed ______ features. (北二外2006研) 2. Linguistics is usually defined as the ______study of language. (北二外2003研) 3. Language, broadly speaking, is a means of______ communication. 4. In any language words can be used in new ways to mean new things and can be combined into innumerable sentences based on limited rules. This feature is usually ter med______ 5. Linguistics is the scientific study of______. 6. Modern linguistic is______ in the sense that the linguist tries to discover what language is rather than lay down some rules for people to observe. 7. One general principle of linguistic analysis is the primacy of ______ over writing. 8. The branch of linguistics which studies the sound patterns of a language is called ______. (北二外2003研) 9. The branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of words is called______ . (北二外2004研) 10. ______mainly studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transcription. (北二外2005研) 11. Semantics and ______investigate different aspects of linguistic meaning. (北二外2007研) 12. In linguistics, ______ refers to the study of the rules governing the way words are combined to form sentences in a language, or simply, the study of the formation as sentence. (中山大学2008研) 13. ______can be defined as the study of language in use. Sociolinguistics, on the other hand, attempts to show the relationship between language and society. 14. The branch of grammar which studies the internal structure of sentence is called _______. (北二外2008研) 15. Saussure distinguished the linguistic competence of the speaker and the actual ph enomena or data of linguistics (utterances) as and . The former refers to the abstract linguistic linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community, and the latter is the concrete manifestation of language either through speech or through writing. (人大2006研) 16. The description of a language as it changes through time is a ______ study. 17. Linguistic potential is similar to Saussure’s langue and Chomsky’s______. 18. One of the important distinctions in linguistics is ______ and parole. The former is the French word for “language”,which is the abstract knowledge necessary for s peaking，listening， writing and reading. The latter is concerned about the actual use of language by peop le in speech or writing. Parole is more variable and may change according to contextu al factors. 19. One of the important distinctions in linguistics is and performance. (人大2006研) 20. Chomsky initiated the distinction between ______ and performances. (北二外2007研) II. Multiple Choice 1.Which of the following is NOT a frequently discussed design feature? (大连外国语学院 2008研) A. Arbitrariness B. Convention C. Duality of the following words is entirely arbitrary? (西安交大2008研) A. tree B. crash C. typewriter D. bang
一、填空 Chapter 5 1. 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 8
Linguistics Chapter 1 Invitations to Linguistics 1.1 Why study language? 1. Language is very essential to human beings. 2. In language there are many things we should know. 3. For further understanding, we need to study language scientifically. 1.2 What is language? Language is a means of verbal communication. It is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication. 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. 1.4 Origin of language 1. The bow-wow theory In primitive times people imitated the sounds of the animal calls in the wild environment they lived and speech developed from that. 2. The pooh-pooh theory In the hard life of our primitive ancestors, they utter instinctive sounds of pains, anger and joy which gradually developed into language. 3. The “yo-he-ho” theory As primitive people worked together, they produced some rhythmic grunts which