英语-语言学-名词解释

1、 名词解释Language: language is a system of arbitrary vocal symbols used for human communication.Design features of language(语言的区别性特征): Arbitrariness: the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning=language is arbitrary in the sense that there is no intrinsic connection betwe

2、en a word(e.g.pen) and the object it refers to .Duality: the property of having two levels of structures, such that units of the primary level are composed of elements of the secondary level. By duality we mean that language system has two sets of structures, one ofsoundsand the other of meanings.指拥

3、有两层结构的这种特性，底层结构是上层结构的组成成分。指语言是声音和意义双重结构组成的系统。举例： Sounds syllables words phrases clauses sentences texts/discoursesProductivity：Language can be used to create new meanings because of its duality .语言可以理解并创造无限数量的新句子，是由双层结构造成的结果（Understand and create unlimited number with sentences）Displacement：Human la

4、nguages enable their users to symbolize something which are not present at the moment of communication.Cultural transmission: language is passed on from generation to generation through teaching and learning rather than instinct.Linguistics is thescientificstudy oflanguage.It is a scientific study b

5、ecause it is based on the systematic investigation of linguistic data, conducted with reference to some general theory of language structure.Psycholinguistics: It is the study of how language is acquired, understood and produced.Langue: F. de Saussure. Langue refers to the abstract linguistic system

6、 shared by all the members of a speech community. 语言指语言系统的整体，这个整体相对是比较稳定的。（abstract）Parole: the realization of langue in actual use. 言语则指代某个个体在实际语言使用环境中说出的具体话语。（concrete）Competence: Chomsky. Competence is the ideal users knowledge of the rules of his language.Performance: Performance is the actual r

7、ealization of this knowledge in linguistic communication.Phoneme(音位）： A phoneme is a phonological unit; it is the smallest unit of sound in a language, of distinctive value, abstract. It is not any particular sound, but rather it is represented or realized by a certain phone in a certain context.All

8、ophones(音位变体）：The non-distinctive sounds are members of the same phoneme.For example, in English, when the phoneme/p/ occurs at the beginning of words likeputandpair, it is aspirated; but when /p/ occurs in words like spanandspare, it is unaspirated。The aspirated and unaspirated /p/ are allophones o

9、f the same phoneme.Minimal pairs(最小对立体）：Word forms which differ from each other only by one sound.For example, in English,pillandbillare a minimal pairComplementary distribution(互补分布）：Not all the speech sounds occur in the same environment. When two sounds never occur in the same environment, for ex

10、ample, the unaspirated/p/ always occurs after /s/ while the aspirated one always occurs in other places.Suprasegmental phonology(超音段音位）：stress（重音） (word stress & sentence stress), tone （音调）and intonation（语调）.Morphology：Its the branch of linguistics that studies that internal structure of words, and

11、the rules by which words are formed.Morpheme(词素）：The minimal unit of meaning, the smallest unit in terms of relationship between expression and content. PS:Types: roots(词根）affix（词缀）and stem（词干）.Inflectional affix（屈折词缀）：Inflectional affixes are mostly suffixes(后缀),which are always word final(e.g. dru

12、ms, walks, Marys)limited in numbernot change the part of speechindicating grammatical meaningconditioned by the phrase or sentence they attach toderivational affix（派生词缀）: Derivational affixes can be prefixes(e.g. depart, online) or suffixes(e.g. teacher, workable).change the lexical meaningmight or

13、might not change the part of speech(词性)based on simple meaning distinctionsmore productivecan be prefixes or suffixesWord-formation(构词）：the processes of word variations signaling lexical relationships. They arecompound(合成）andderivation(派生).Syntax：It is a branch of linguistics that studies how words

14、are combined to form sentences and the rules that govern the formation of sentences.Category(范畴）：It refers to the defining properties of words.E.g. the categories of the noun and the pronoun are usually said to the categories of number（数）, gender（性）, case（格）.Syntactical category(句法范畴):A group of lin

15、guistic items which fulfill the same or similar functions in sentence-formation. （在句子构成中起相同作用的一类语言单位）Word-lexical category, Phrase-phrasal category, Clauseclausal category, SentenceSimple sentence: It contains a subject and a verb, and it expresses a complete thought.Coordinate sentence: It contains

16、 two independent clauses joined by a coordinator(并列连词) .Complex sentence: It has an independent clause joined with one or more dependent clauses by one or more subordinators(从属连词) such as if, when, because, although.Reference: how language refers to the real physical world (语言指代外部物质世界)Sense: Inheren

17、t meaning of the linguistic form. It is abstract and the meaning dictionary compilers are interested in. (语言形式的内在意义)Homonymy: words having different meanings have the same form, different words are identical in sound or spelling, or in both.homophones 同音词 (knight and night, piece and peace)homograph

18、 同形词 (tear (v) and tear (n), lead (v) and lead (n)complete homonyms 同音同形词 (fast (adj) and fast (n)言语行为理论Speech Act Theory:J. Austin, 20世纪50年代末，认为语言不仅可以用来表述，更可以用来“做事doing things”，即“to do things with words”.言内行为Locutionary Act：指the utterance of a sentence itself,即“说话”行为本身，话语表示字面意思literal Meaning言外行为Il

19、locutionary Act：指说话时，因为言语本身的一些习惯力量而随之产生了其他的一些行为，如警告、允诺等；通常表述的是说话者的交流目的或意图言后行为 Perlocutionary Act合作原则The Cooperative Principles: (P.Grice) Quantity Maxim: Make it as informative as required, not too muchQuality Maxim：不要说不真实false或者缺乏证据lack adequate evidence的话Relation Maxim：relevantManner Maxim：Avoid o

20、bscurity and ambiguity；be brief and orderly会话含义Conversational Implicature: When any of the maxims is blatantly violated that the hearer knows that it is being violated, then Conversational Implicatures arise.Speech community（言语社区）: The social group that is singled out for any special study is called

21、 the speech community.Speech variety / language variety: it refers to any distinguishable form of speech used by a speaker or a group of speakers.Bilingualism: bilingualism is a situation that two languages are used side by side with each having a different role to play and language switching occurs

22、 when the situation changes.Context: the notion of context is essential to the pragmatic study of language. It is generally considered as constituted by the knowledge shared by the speaker and the hearer. Context determines the speakers use of language and also the hearers interpretation of what is

23、said to him. Regional dialect: A regional dialect is a linguistic variety used by people living in the same geographical region.Sociolect: it refers to the linguistic variety characteristic of a particular social class.Idiolect: it is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines element

24、s regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations.Register (语域): According to Halliday, language varies as its function varies; it differs in different situations. The type of language which is selected as appropriate to the type of situation is a register. There are three social variables th

25、at determine the register: field of discourse, tenor of discourse, and mode of discourse.Culture:In a board sense, means the total way of life of a people, including the patterns of belief, customs, objects, institutions, techniques, and language that characterizes the life of the human community. A

26、s culture is so inclusive, it permeates virtually every aspects of life and influences predominantly people behavior, including linguistic behavior. In a narrow sense, culture may refer to a local or specific practice, beliefs or customs, which can be mostly found in folk culture, enterprises cultur

27、e or food culture etc.Intercultural communication (跨文化交际): it is communication between people, whose cultural perceptions and symbols systems are distinct enough to alter the communication event. It frequently refers to communication between people from different cultures, which implied a comparison

28、 between cultures.Language acquisition: language acquisition refers to the childs acquisition of his mother tongue, i.e how the child comes to understand and speak the language of his community.A behaviorist view of language acquisition: Traditional behaviorists view language as behavior and believe

29、 that language learning is simply a matter of imitation and habit formation.An innatist view of language acquisition: Noam Chomsky claims that human beings are biologically programmed for language and that the language develops in the child just as other biological functions such as walking. Origina

30、lly, he referred to this innate ability as Language Acquisition Device. Later he prefers this innate endowment as Universal Grammar.Universal Grammar: The different languages havea similar level of complexity and detail, and reflect general abstract properties of the common linguistic system，it is c

31、alled Universal Grammar.An interactionist view of language acquisition: Language develops as a result of the complex interplay between the human characteristics of the child and the environment in which the child develops. Integrated with the itnnatist view, the interactionist further claims that th

32、e modified language which is suitable for the childs capability is crucial in his language acquisition.Motherese/ caretaker talk: adults speak differently when talking to little children.Second language acquisition: the systematic study of how one person acquires a second language subsequent to his

33、native language.Interlanguage: learners independent system of the second language which is of neither the native language nor the second language, but a continuum or approximation from his native language to the target language.Contrastive Analysis 对比分析: It refers to a comparative procedure used to

34、establish linguistic differences between two languages so as to predict learning difficulties caused by interference from the learners first language and prepare the type of teaching materials that will reduce the effects of interference.Error Analysis错误分析: An approach to the study and analysis of t

35、he errors made by the second language learners which suggests that many learner errors are not due to the learner s mother tongue interference but reflect universal learning strategies such as over-generalization and simplification of rules.它指出语言学习者所犯的许多错误不是母语干扰所致而是体现了一些普遍的学习策略.如概括过度和规则简化。Input Hypothesis: Learners progress al