英语语言学期末复习.doc

期末考试语言学复习范围

1：必须通看全书；

2：名词解释复习范围
language，speech community, bilingualism, semantics, context, locutionary act, language acquisition, phonology, psycholinguistics, langue, phoneme, culture, intercultural communication, linguistics, phonetics, competence，interlanguage, neurolinguistics, sense, morphology

3：术语翻译都选自教材最后的glossary；

4：简答题复习范围 （主要限定在第一章、第五章、第六章、和第十章）
1. Is modern linguistics mainly synchronic or diachronic? Why?
2. What are the major branches of linguistics? What does each of them study?
3. What makes modern linguistics different from traditional grammar?
4. What is sense and what is reference? How are they related?
5. What does pragmatics study? How does it differ from traditional semantics?
6. According to Austin, what are the three acts a person is possibly performing while making an utterance? Give an example.
7. What are the three variables that determine register? Interpret them with an example.
8. In what way is componential analysis similar to the analysis of phonemes into distinctive features?
9. What are the major types of synonyms in English?
10. What are the five design features of language specified by C. Hockeet to show that human language is essentially different from any animal communication system?
11. What are the four major views concerning the study of meaning?
12. Why is the notion of context essential in the pragmatic study of linguistic communication?
13. What are the four maxims of the Cooperative Principle (CP)? List their names and explain them briefly.
14. To what extent is second language learning similar to first language learning? Can you list some proof from your own learning experience?
15. What is the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH) concerning language acquisition?
16. Explain the definition：“Linguistics is the scientific study of language”.
17. What are suprasegmental features? Use examples to illustrate your points.
18. What is grammaticality? Is a grammatically meaningful sentence necessarily a semantically meaningful sentence?
19. How are “sentence” and “utterance” and “sentence meaning” and “utterance meaning” related and how do they differ?
20. What distinction, if any, can you draw between bilingualism and diglossia?

二、关于期末试题
I. Multiple Choice (30%)
II. T/F Judgment (15%)
III. Term Translation (15%)
IV. Term Definition (15%)
V. Short Essay Question (25%)

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