英语专业(语言学)历年真题试卷汇编24.doc

英语专业（语言学）历年真题试卷汇编24
(总分：94.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、 填空题(总题数：7，分数：14.00)
1."Linguistic relativity" was proposed by 1and 2. (清华2001研)
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：Sapir）
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：Whorf）
解析：解析：萨丕尔一沃尔夫假说认为，一方面，语言可以决定我们的思维方式；另一方面，语言之间的相似性是相对的，结构性差异越大，反映出对于世界认识的越不同。因此，这个假说也被称作“语言决定论”和“语言相对主义”。
2.Psycholinguistics is a branch of linguistics which is the study of psychological aspects of language. As an interdisciplinary academic field, it investigates the following major subjects; 1 , 2and 3.
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：acquisition）
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：comprehension）
填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：production）
解析：解析：心理语言学作为语言学的一个分支，是从心理学的角度来研究语言，主要包括语言习得，语言理解和语言产生。
3.A 1language is originally a pidgin that has become established as a native language in some speech community.
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：creole）
解析：解析：当皮钦语得到发展不再是作为交易的语言，而成为一个社会群体的第一语言时，它就成为克里奥尔语。由皮钦语转变成为克里奥尔语的过程就称作克里奥尔语化。
4.A linguistic 1refers to a word or expression that is prohibited by the "polite" society from general use.
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：taboo）
解析：解析：禁忌语是由于宗教、政治或性别原因而避免使用的词汇，通常被委婉语所代替。
5.Taboo and 1are two faces of the same communication coin.
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：euphemism）
解析：解析：禁忌语是由于宗教、政治或性别原因而避免使用的词汇，通常被委婉语所代替。委婉语是用一词代替比较唐突的令人不快的另一词的表达方法。他们是同一交流过程的两个方面。
6.Language itself is not sexist, but its use may reflect the 1attitude connoted in the language that is sexist.
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：social）
解析：解析：语言本身是不存在性别歧视的，但当语言被不同的人使用时，则会反映出社会中存在的性别歧视现象。
7.As Carter and Simpson (1989) observed that " if the 1960s was a decade of formalism in stylistics, the 1970s a decade of functionalism, and the 1980s a decade of 1stylistics". (中山大学2011年研)
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填空项1:__________________ （正确答案：正确答案：discourse）
解析：解析：正如Carter and Simpson认为的那样，如果说20世纪60年代是形式主义文体学，70年代是功能主义文体学，那么80年代就是话语文体学。
二、 判断题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)
8.If a child is deprived of linguistic environment, he or she is unlikely to learn a language successfully later on.
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 A.真 √
 B.假
解析：解析：如果一个孩子失去了语言环境，他或她是不可能成功地学好一种语言的。
9.When children learn to distinguish between the sounds of their language and the sounds that are not part of the language, they can acquire any sounds in their native language once their parents teach them.
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 A.真
 B.假 √
解析：解析：不论孩子们生活在何种语言环境中，他们首先获得的是世上所有语言的普遍性知识，之后他们才会学习更为复杂的语言。
10.Language reflects sexism in society. Language itself is not sexist, just as it is not obscene; but it can connote sexist attitudes as well as attitudes about social taboos or racism.
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 A.真 √
 B.假
解析：解析：语言可以反应出社会的性别歧视现象，但语言本身并无性别歧视意义，语言可以表达出人们对性别的态度及对一些禁忌语和种族歧视的态度。
11.According to the strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, speaker's perceptions determine language and pattern their way of life.
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 A.真
 B.假 √
解析：解析：根据萨丕尔一沃尔夫假说的强势版本，语言决定了说话者的感知能力和生活模式，而非说话者的感知能力决定了语言和生活模式。
三、 单项选择题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)
12.______is defined as a conscious process of accumulating knowledge of a second language usually obtained in school settings.
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 A.Competence
 B.Performance
 C.Learning √
 D.Acquisition
解析：解析：在学校里，通过有意识的学习而学到第二语言的的过程叫做学习，这不同于儿童不自觉地自然的言语习得过程。
13.______are language varieties appropriate for use in particular speech situations.
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 A.Slang
 B.Address terms
 C.Registers √
 D.Education varieties
解析：解析：语域是特殊人群使用的言语变体，通常指具有相同职业或具有同样爱好的人。某一语域通常具有自己一些独特的词汇或使用词或短语的特殊方式，而使其与其他语域区分开来。
14.______refers to a marginal language of few lexical items and straight forward grammatical rules, used as a medium of communication.
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 A.Lingua franca
 B.Creole
 C.Pidgin √
 D.Standard language
解析：解析：皮钦语不是任何人的母语，是在交往联系的情况下(例如交易)学习的语言变体。
15.In sociolinguistic studies, speaker are regarded as members of social groups, the social group that is singled out for any special study is called______.
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 A.the speech community √
 B.the linguistic group
 C.the linguistic community
 D.the speech variety group
解析：解析：在社会语言学中，语言使用者都被看作是社会的成员。而具有相同的语言认同或至少共享一种语言变体的人群可称作语言社区。
四、 简答题(总题数：13，分数：26.00)
16.Eskimos have many different words for different types of snow, Aborigines for different types of sand, and in Arabic one must choose from a whole range of words which are subsumed under the Western category CAMEL. Can you explain these phenomena with your linguistic knowledge? (北航2008研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：These phenomena can be explained from the following perspectives: (1) These phenomena show a relationship between language and society. Language changes from region to region, from one social group to another and from individual to individual. The living environment makes great impact on the changes of language. As Eskimo are always living in an environment of a snow world, they have made a good cognition to snow and classified it in different types. Human use language to describe the world they have cognized. (2) These phenomena can be explained from 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. So Eskimos's different words for different types of snow reflect their different ways to understand snow.)
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17.What is linguistic determinism? (北航2008研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：Linguistic determinism, is one of the two points of Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis, and has developed into the strong version of this hypothesis. It could be summarized as follows: (1) One's thinking is completely determined by his native language because one cannot but perceive the world in terms of the categories and distinctions encoded in the language. (2) The categories and distinctions encoded in one language system are unique to that system and incommensurable with those of other systems. Therefore, the following statement could represent this hypothesis "If Aristotle had spoken Chinese, his logic would have been different".)
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18.What do you think of the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis? (西安外国语学院2006研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：Sapir-Whorf hypothesis consists of two parts: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity. Linguistic determinism, or the strong version, has been criticized for its excessive concern with surface structures of individual languages. In fact, all languages are fundamental of the same universal human character, including the lexico-semantic and syntactic components of language and all normal human beings are gifted with the same linguistic faculty and cognitive capacity. The flaws of that hypothesis can be revealed through the following analysis. (1) Different grammatical structures do not mean that speakers of different languages differ in thinking logic or reasoning. (2) Equivalent translation is always possible in spite of the fact that in practice there are hardly any people in perfect control of two genetically different languages. (3) People who have good command of two genetic-unrelated languages do not have "double minds" or do not have to change their thinking logic when speaking foreign tongue.)
解析：
19.What will you say to a statement like "our language is our culture"? (四川大学2006研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：This statement reveals a fact that language is part of the culture. Culture is the total pattern of beliefs, customs, institutions, objects and techniques that characterize the life of a particular society. It is regarded as a carrier of culture, because without language culture would be impossible. Language is the principal mean by which culture is passed down. Language is the symbolic representation of a people, and it comprises their historical and cultural backgrounds as well as their approach to life and their ways of living and thinking. People use language for the sake of communication, but language itself cannot fulfil the task of communication without the culture system behind the language. Language is a product of our social life.)
解析：
20.How would you comment on Sapir-Whorf hypothesis? (北航2010研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：This hypothesis suggests that our language will mould our view of the world. The hypothesis has two important points, linguistic determinism—language may determine our thinking patterns and linguistic relativity—similarity between language is relative, the greater their structual differentiation is, the more diverse their conceptualization of the world will be. Thus, two versions of the Sapir-whorf hypothesis have been developed, a strong version and a weak version. The strong version of the theory emphasizes the decisive role of language as the shaper of our thinking patterns. The weak version of the hypothesis, however, is a modified type of its original theory, suggesting that there is a correlation between language, culture and thought, but the cross-culture differences thus produced in our ways of thinking are relative rather than categorical.)
解析：
21.Why do we need to teach culture in our language classroom? (四川大学2010研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：Language has a close relationship with culture. Language is an indispensible carrier of culture and culture finds a better representation through language use. When it comes to language teaching and learning, the influence of cultural knowledge on the linguistic performance of language learners has been identified and highlighted. It has repeatedly been found that learners who lack sufficient knowledge about the target culture can hardly become active and appropriate language users in their target language. For these reasons, the information concerning cultural differences has rightly been introduced in language classrooms of different kinds of enhancing learners' cultural consciousness and improving their performance in cross-cultural contexts of communication. So we need to teach culture in our language classroom.)
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22.What are sociolinguistics of society and sociolinguistics of language? (武汉大学2007研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：If we want to know more about a given society or community by examining the linguistic behavior of its members, we are doing a sociolinguistic study of society. That is, we are doing sociolinguistics at a macro level of investigation. At this level of discussion, things that we are interested in include bilingualism or multilingualism, language attitudes, language choice, language maintenance and shift, language planning and standardization, vernacular language education, and so on. On the other hand, if we want to know more about some linguistic variations in language use by turning to potential socio-cultural factors for a description and explanation, we are doing a sociolinguistic study of language. Consequently, we are more interested in examining micro linguistic phenomena such as structural variants, address forms, gender differences, discourse analysis, Pidgin and Creole languages, and other more language related issues.)
解析：
23.It is claimed in sociolinguistics that you are what you say. How would you comment on this theoretical claim? (武汉大学201 1年研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：Everyone speaks differently. A personal dialect of an individual speaker combines elements regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations. In other words, an individual speaker's regional and social back ground, his/her gender and age jointly determine the way he/she talks. From this point, we can claim that "You are what you say". Following this claim, we may expand the scope of our observation by introducing some social factors that are believed to influence our language behavior in a social context. Among these factors, some major ones include a) class; b) gender; c) age; d) ethnic identity; e) education background, f) occupation, and g) religious belief. In our daily speaking, the potential selection of linguistic forms can reflect the above factors, which determine our identities. For example, women use more "fancy" color terms such as "mauve" and "beige"; use less powerful curse words; use more intensifiers such as "terrible" and "awful"; use more tag questions. On the other hand, your way of speaking, to some extent, reflect your identity. (本题为开放式题目，围绕自语言与社会及文化之间的关系阐述自己对这句话的观点即可))
解析：
24.In Chinese tone changes are used in the way that affects the meanings of individual words. (中山大学201 1年研)
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正确答案：(正确答案：Tones are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords. Pitch variations can distinguish meaning just like phonemes; therefore, the tone is a suprasegmental feature. The meaning - distinctive function of the tone is especially important in what we call tone languages. English is not a tone language. Chinese is a typical tone language. It has four tones. The first tone is level (阴平) , the second rise(阳平) , the third fall rise(上声) , and the fourth fall (去声). The role of the tone can be well illustrated by pronouncing the same sound combination such as [pa] in the four different tones and have different meanings;(八) High level 'eight'(拔) High rising 'pull out'(靶) Low falling rising 'target'(坝) High falling 'dam')
解析：
25.What distinction, if any, can you draw between bilingualism and diglossia?
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正确答案：(正确答案：Bilingualism refers to a linguistic situation in which two standard languages are used in a speech community; whereas in a diglossia community, two varieties of language are used for different situations, one being more standard and higher, and used for more formal matters, and the other less prestigious, and used for colloquial situations.)
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26.How do the speech of women and the speech of men differ from each other?
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正确答案：(正确答案：Women tend to use more prestigious forms, more polite and indirect language, more tag questions, less powerful curse words, more statement questions, and more specific color terms than their male counterparts. In mixed-gender groups, at public gatherings, and in many informal conversations, men spend more time talking t