语言学必考名词解释

1、.1. Langue: refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech communityLangue: the linguistic competence of the speaker.2. Design feature: are features that define our human languages, such as arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement, cultural transmission, etc.3

2、. 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 kind4. Arbitrariness: one design feature of human language, which refers to the face that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural

3、relationship to their meaning.5. 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.6. Displacement: one design feature of human languag

4、e, 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.7. Competence: language users underlying knowledge about the system of rules.8. Prescriptive: the study of a language is carried throug

5、h the course of its history.Prescriptive: a kind of linguistic study in which things are prescribed how ought to be, i.e. laying down rules for language use.9. Phoneme: the abstract element of sound, identified as being distinctive in a particular language.10. Assimilation: the change of a sound as

6、a result of the influence of an adjacent sound, which is more specifically called.”contact”or”contiguous”assimilation.11. Connotation: a term in a contrast with denotation, meaning the properties of the entity a word denotes.12. Reference: the use of language to express a proposition, meaning the pr

7、operties of the entity a word denotes.Reference: the use of language to express a proposition,i.e. to talk about things in context.13. Sense: the literal meaning of a word or an expression, independent of situational context.14. Linguistic determinism: one of the two points in Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

8、, i.e. language determines thought.15. Parole: the actual phenomena or data of linguistics (utterances).16. Interlinguage:the type of language constructed by second or foreign language learners who are still in the process of learning a language,i.e.the language system between the target language an

9、d the learners native language.17. Transfer: the influence of mother tongue upon the second language. When structures of the two languages are similar, we can get positive transfer of facilitation; when the two languages are different in structures, negative transfer of inference occurs and results

10、in errors.18. Perlocutionary act: the act performed by or resulting from saying something, its the consequence of, or the change brought about by the utterance.19. Hyponymy: a relation between tow words, in which the meaning of one word (the superordinate) is included in the meaning of another word(

11、the hyponym)20. 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/.21. Error analysis: is the process of determining the incidence, nature, cause and consequence of un

12、successful language22. Utterance: 1.A spoken word, statement, or vocal sound 2.The action of saying or expressing something aloud the simple utterance of a few platitudes 3.An uninterrupted chain of spoken or written language23. Interference: a process more commonly known as negative transfer, which

13、 occurs when an L1 patter is different from the counterpart pattern of the target language.24. Predication analysis: is a way to analyze the meaning of sentences. A sentence, composed of a subject and predicate, is a basic unit for meaning analysis is called predication, which is the abstraction of

14、the meaning of a sentence25. Cohesion: refers to the way in which text “hang together”; to the resources within language that help relate ideas and information and make links between different parts of a text 26. Polysemy: words have two or more than two senses 27. Speech act: refers to an action pe

15、rformed by the use of an utterance.28. Linguistics: generally, it is defined as the scientific study of the language29. Phonetics: is the study of production of speech sounds30. Semantics: is generally defined as the study of the meaning of linguistic units. to be more specific, the meaning with whi

16、ch linguistists are concerned is defined as linguistic semantics语言学考试范围1. Does the traffic light have duality? Explain the reasons.2. IC analyzes the sentence structure with brackets or a tree diagram. Lovely Jane ran away.3. What are Leechs seven types of meaning?Conceptual meaning. Connotative mea

17、ning. Social meaning. Affective meaning. Reflected meaning. Collocative meaning. Thematic meaning4. What are the differences between modern linguistics and traditional grammar? 5. Explain surface structure and deep structure.6. What are the major views concerning the study of meaning? 7. What are th

18、e four maxims of the CP?8. Analyze the structure of a syllable. Give one example to illustrate.9. Explain the two terms “sense” and “reference” and what is their relationship?10. What are the differences between errors and mistakes?What are the major views concerning the study of meaning What are th

19、e major views concerning the study of meaning?(1) The naming theory命名论-One of the oldest notions converning meanings, and also a very primitive one, was the naming theory proposed by the ancient Greek scholar Plato. According to this theory, the linguistic forms or symbols, in other words, the words

20、 used in a language are taken to be labels of the objects they stand for. So words are just names or label for things.命名论是最原始的语义理论，该理论是把词看作所指事物的名称。The limitations of the naming theory:First of all, the naming theory seems applicable to nouns only. Nouns can be considered as names or labels, but verb

21、s, adjectives, and adverbs, such as “think” “hard” “slowly” are definitely not labels of objects.b. Besides, within the category of nouns, there are nouns which denote things that do not exist in the real world at all such as “ghost” “dragon” “unicorn” and also nouns that do not denote concrete thin

22、gs, but abstract notions such as “joy” “impulse”.命名论只能适用于名词，对于动词、形容词、副词就无法解释了。即使是在爱名词范围内也无法解释世界上本不存在的东西，例如“ghost” “dragon” “unicorn”之类和一些抽象的概念，例如“高兴joy”“冲动impulse”等。(2) the conceptualist view 意念论-The conceptualist view holds that there is no direct link between a linguistic form and what it refers t

23、o (i.e., between language and the real world); rather, in the interpretation of meaning they are linked through the mediation of concepts in the mind.意念论认为词汇与该词汇所指的事物之间的关系不是直接的，而是间接的，是靠人脑中的意念来连接的。词汇是通过意念来指称事物，意念便是词汇的意义。The conceptualist view is best illustrated by the classic semantic triangle or tr

24、iangle of significance suggested by Odgen and Richards.意念论可由著名的语义三角形来表述。语义三角形是论述和解释语义现象的一种经典理论。Semantic triangleProposed by Ogden & Richards in their “The Meaning of Meaning”. They saw the relationship between the word and the thing it refers to is not direct. Its mediated by concept. thought or ref

25、erence symbol referentIn this diagram, the symbol or form refers to linguistic elements (words, phrases), the referent refers to the things in the real world, and thought or reference refers to “concept”.e.g. The dog over there looks unfriendly.The word “dog” is directly associated with a certain co

26、ncept in our mind, i.e. what a “dog” is like, but it is not directly linked to the referent (the particular dog) in this particular case. Thus, the symbol of a word signifies thing by virtue of the concept associated with the form of the word in the mind of the speaker of a language, and the concept

27、 looked at from this point of view is the meaning of the word.Ogden and Richards presented the classic “Semantic Triangle” as manifested in the following diagram, in which the “symbol” or “form” refers to the linguistic elements (word, sentence, etc.), the “referent” refers to the object in the worl

28、d of experience, and “thought” or “reference” refers to concept or notion. Thus, the symbol a word signifies “things” by virtue of the “concept”, associated with the form of the word in the mind of the speaker of the language. The “concept” thus considered is meaning of the word.语义三角形最大的问题在于词语与所指事物没

29、有必然的联系。同一个事物可能或者可以用不同的词来表示。(3) contextualism 语境论What is contextualism? “Contextualism” is based on the presumption that one can derive meaning from, or reduce it to, observable context: the “situational context” and the “linguistic context”. 语境论认为语言的意义离不开使用语言的语境，语义存在与语境之中。语义不是抽象的，它是由语境所决定的。Every utterance occurs in a particular spatial-temporal situation, as the following factors are related t