语言学名词解释

1. design feature:are features that define our human languages,such as

arbitrariness,duality,creativity,displacement,cultural transmission,etc.

2. function: the use of language tocommunicate,to think ,nguage functions inclucle

imformative function,interpersonal function,performative function,interpersonal

function,performative function,emotive function,phatic communion,recreational function and

metalingual function.

3. etic: a term in contrast with emic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction

of phonetics and phonemics.Being etic mans making far too many, as well as behaviously

inconsequential,differentiations,just as was ofter the case with phonetic vx.phonemic analysis in

linguistics proper.

4. emic: a term in contrast with etic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction

of phonetics and phonemics.An emic set of speech acts and events must be one that is validated as

meaningful via final resource to the native members of a speech communith rather than via qppeal

to the investigator’s ingenuith or intuition alone.

5. synchronic: a kind of description which takes a fixed instant(usually,but not necessarily,the

present),as its point of observation.Most grammars are of this kind.

6. diachronic:study of a language is carried through the course of its history.

7. prescriptive: the study of a language is carried through the course of its history.

8. prescriptive: a kind of linguistic study in which things are prescribed how ought to

be,ying down rules for language use.

9. descriptive: a kind of linguistic study in which things are just described.

10. arbitrariness: one design feature of human language,which refers to the face that the forms of

linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning.

11. duality: one design feature of human language,which refers to the property of having two

levels of are composed of elements of the secondary.level and each of the two levels has its own

principles of organization.

12. displacement: one design feature of human language,which means human language enable

their users to symbolize objects,events and concepts which are not present c in time and space,at

the moment of communication.

13. phatic communion: one function of human language,which refers to the social interaction of

language.

14. metalanguage: certain kinds of linguistic signs or terms for the analysis and description of

particular studies.

15. macrolinguistics: he interacting study between language and language-related disciplines

such as psychology,sociology,ethnograph,science of law and artificial intelligence etc.Branches of

macrolinguistics include

psycholinguistics,sociolinguistics, anthropological linguistics,et

16. competence: language user’s underlying knowledge about the system of rules.

17. performance: the actual use of language in concrete situation.

18. langue: the linguistic competence of the speaker.

19. parole: the actual phenomena or data of linguistics(utterances).

20． Articulatory phonetics: the study of production of speechsounds.

21． Coarticulation: a kind of phonetic process in which simultaneous or overlapping articulations are involved..Coarticulation can be further divided into anticipatory coarticulation

and perseverative coarticulation.

22． Voicing: pronouncing a sound (usually a vowel or a voiced consonant) by vibrating the

vocal cords.

23． Broad and narrow transcription: the use of a simple set of symbols in transcription is called

broad transcription;the use of a simple set of symbols in transcription is called broad

transcription;while,the use of more specific symbols to show more phonetic detail is referred to as

narrow transcription.

24． Consonant: 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.

25． Phoneme: the abstract element of sound, identified as being distinctive in a particular

language.

26． Allophone:any of the different forms of a phoneme(eg.is an allophone of /t/in

English.When /t/occurs in words like step,it is unaspirated.Bothand are allophones of

the phoneme/t/.

27． Vowl:are sound segments produced without such obstruction,so no turbulence of a total

stopping of the air can be perceived.

28． Manner of articulation; in the production of consonants,manner of articulation refers to the

actual relationship between the articulators and thus the way in which the air passes through

certain parts of the vocal tract.

29． Place of articulation: in the production of consonants,place of articulation refers to where in