2013语言学导论期末复习提纲(总5页)

1、2012-2013学年第2学期语言学导论期末复习提纲Part I Testing itemsThere are seven types of testing items: I. Define the following terms (10%)II. Fill in the blanks of the following sentences (20%)III. Multiple choices (15 points)IV. Decide whether the following statements are true or false (10%)V. Draw a tree diagram (

2、10%)VI. Briefly answer the following questions in three or four sentences (20%)VII. Discuss one of the following topics in about 200-300 words (15%)Part II Reviewing outlinesStudents in this course are supposed to know the following knowledge or questions about English linguistics.1. What is languag

3、e?2. What are design features of language?3. What are the theories of the origin of language?4. How many functions does language have? What are they?5. What main branches is linguistics divided into?6. What is macrolinguistics? 7. What are descriptive and prescriptive studies?8. What are synchronic

4、and diachronic descriptions?9. What are langue and parole?10. What are competence and performance?11. What many branches is phonetics divided into?12. What do speech organs consist of?13. What is IPA?14. How do we classify consonants and vowels?15. What is minimal pair?16. What is coarticulation?17.

5、 What are phonemes?18. What are allophones?19. What is complementary distribution?20. What is assimilation? What is dissimilation?21. What is phonological rule?22. How do you understand distinctive features?23. How do you understand a syllabic structure?24. What is stress/ tone/ intonation?25. What

6、is phonetics?25. What is phonology?26. What is word order?27. What are syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations?28. What is co-occurrence?29. What is immediate constituent?30. What is a tree diagram and how do you use it to analyze sentences?31. What are endocentric and exocentric constructions?32. Wh

7、at are coordination and subordination?33. What is number/ gender/ case?34. What is syntax?35. How many kinds of syntactic relations? What are they?36. What is agreement?37. What is phrase?38. What is clause?39. What is sentence?40. What is recursiveness?41. What are the seven types of English senten

8、ce patterns?42. What is conjoining?43. What is embedding?44. What is cohesion?45. What are the seven types of meaning?46. What is the semantic triangle in the Meaning of Meaning?47. What is the referential theory?48. What is synonymy?49. What is antonymy? How many types of antonymy do we have?50. Wh

9、at is hyponymy?51. What is sense?52. What is componential analysis?53. What is an integrated theory in sentence meaning?54. What is logical semantics?55. What is predicate logic?56. How do we write the predicate logical form?57. What is the truth value table?58. What is propositional logic?59. What

10、is universal quantifier? What is existential quantifier?60. What is homophone?61. What is pragmatics?62. What is entailment?63. What is Speech Act Theory?64. What are performatives and constatives?65. What are locutionary act, illocutionary act and perlocutionary act?66. What is the Theory of Conver

11、sational Implicature?67. What is the cooperative principle (CP)? How do you understand those maxims?68. What is Relevance Theory?69. What are the Q- and Q-principles?70. What are the Q-, I- and M-principles?语言学导论复习资料 一：名词解释(4个） 1. Langue & Parole（语言与言语） Langue is the linguistic competence of the spe

12、aker,which is relatively stable and systematic and also the rule that the speaker should follow. Parole is the actual phenomena or data of linguistics, which is subject to personal and situational constraints and always a naturally occurring event. 2. Phonetics & Phonology （语音学与音位学） Phonetics is the

13、 study of speech sounds, including three main areas: articulatory phonetics (发音语音学), acoustic phonetics(声学语音学), auditory Phonetics(听觉语音学). Phonology is the study of sound systemsthe invention of distinctive speech sounds that occur in a language and the patterns. 3. Open-class word & Closed-class wo

14、rd（开放类词与封闭类词） Open-class words: whose membership is in principle infinite or unlimited. e.g. n. v. adj. adv. E.g. regarding / with regard to throughout, in spite of Closed words : their membership is fixed or limited. E.g. pro. prep. conj. art. etc. 4. Immediate Constituent Analysis（直接成分分析法） The rel

15、ation between a sentence and its component elements is a Construction（结构体） and its Constituents（成分）. To analyze their relations is IC. 5. Sense & Reference（意义与所指） Sense: The literal meaning of a word or an expression, independence of situational context. Reference: The relation between words and the

16、 things, actions, events and qualities they stand for. 6. Metaphor & Metonymy （隐喻与转喻） Metaphor involves the comparison of two concepts in that one is construed in terms of the other. E.g. All the world is a stage. Metonymy : in the cognitive literature, is defined as a cognitive process in which the

17、 vehicle provides mental access to the target within the same domain. E.g. the crown can stand for a king, and the White House for the American government. 7. Performatives & Constatives（施为句与表述句） Performatives: In speech act theory an utterance which performs an act, such as Watch out. Constatives:

18、An utterance which asserts something that is either true or false. E.g. Chicago is in the United States. 二：问答题（3个） 1. What are the designed features of Language？ “Design features” here refer to the defining properties of human language that tell the difference between human language and any system o

19、f animal communication, including: 1. Arbitrariness refers to the fact that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meanings. 2. duality refers to the property of having two levels of structures. 3. creativity means that language is resourceful because of its duality and

20、recursiveness.(递归性） 4. displacement means that human languages enable their users to symbolize objects, events and concepts which are not present at the moment of communication. 5. Cultural Transmission means that language is not biologically transmitted from generation to generation, but that the d

21、etails of the linguistic system must be learned by each speaker. 2. What is Iconicity（句法像似性）？How to analyze some language phenomena with Iconicity? In functional-cognitive linguistics, as well as in semiotics, iconicity is the conceived similarity or analogy between the form of a sign and its meanin

22、g, as opposed to arbitrariness. We can analyze some language phenomena with the Iconic principles. Proximity principle: conceptual distance tends to match with linguistic distance, e.g. “give sb sth” and “give sth to sb” Quantity principle: conceptual complexity corresponds to formal complexity, e.g

23、. “apple, tree”, “apple tree” and “apple trees”. Sequential order principle: the sequential order of events described is mirrored in the speech chain, e.g. “I came, I saw, I conquered”. 3. What is prototype theory（原形范畴）? How to analyze some language phenomena with prototype theory? Prototype theory

24、is a mode of graded categorization in cognitive science, where some members of a category are more central than others. For example, when asked to give an example of the concept furniture, chair is more frequently cited than, say, stool. We can analyze some language phenomena with its three levels i

25、n categories. basic level: This is the level where we perceive the most differences between “objects” in the word. E.g, all categories of dogs are different, but they still share enough to be distinguished from cats, birds, snakes,etc. superordinate level: Superordinate categories are the most gener

26、al ones. E.g, if someone asks you to think of a plant, you might think of a tree or a flower. subordinate level: They have clearly identifiable gestalts(完形） and lots of individual specific features. At this level we perceive the differences between members od the basic level categories, like rain co

27、at,apple juice and wheel chair. 4. What is figure and ground theory? How to analyze some language phenomena with figure and ground theory? The figure within a scene is a substructure perceived as standing out from the remainder(the ground) and accorded special prominence as the pivotal(关键的） entity a

28、round which the scene is organized and for which it provides a setting. For example, you see words on a printed paper as the figure and the white sheet as the background. It is believed that the selection and arrangement of the information in syntactic structure are decided by the degrees of salienc

29、e of it. For example, “The car crashed into the tree” and “The tree was hit by the car”, in these two sentences, the meanings are the same, but by arranging the positions of the subject and object differently, the focus and prominence are different. 5. How to analyze some language phenomena with Met

30、aphor and Metonymy? We can analyze some language phenomena with metaphor through its three categories. 1. Ontological metaphor: e.g inflation is backing us to conner. In this sentence, regarding inflation as an entity allows human beings to refer to it, identify it, treat it as a case. 2. Structural

31、 metaphor imply how one concept is metaphorically structured in terms of another. For example, “Argument is war” leads to an English expression like “Your claims are indefensible”. 3. Orientional metaphor gives a concept a spatial orientation. For example, “Im feeling up” shows erect posture is rela

32、ted with a positive state, and vise versa. 6. What is Speech Act theory? What is Illocutionary Act? What is Cooperative Principle? The speech act theory was originated with John Austin. A speech act is an utterance that has performative function in language and communication. Speech acts are commonl

33、y taken to include such acts as promising, ordering, greeting, warning, etc. Illocutionary act means when we speak, we not only produce some units of language with certain meanings, but also make clear our purpose in producing them, the way we intend them to be understood, or they also have certain

34、forces. Cooperative Principle refers to the “co-operation” between speakers in using the maxims during the conversation. There are four conversational maxims: the maxim of quantity, the maxim of quality, the maxim of relation, the maxim of manner. 三语言学家及其理论、作品配对 1. Saussure: Course in General Lingui

35、stics 结构主义 历时研究diachronic study 2. Boas: discovered the framework of descriptive linguistics Handbook of American Indian languages 3. Sapir: Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Language 4. Bloomfield: stimulus-response theory Language(1993) 5. Malinowski: context of situation Coral Gardens and Their Magic 6. Tru

36、betzkoy: Principles of Phonlogy 7. Austin: speech act theory How to do things with words 8. Grice: the cooperative principle Logic and conversation 9. Halliday: systemic-functional grammar the theory of metafunctions of language(元语言功能理论） 10. Chomsky: language acquisition device(LAD) generative grammar Syntactic Structures 11. Lakoff: cognitive linguistics Metaphors We Lived By 12. Leech: 7 types of