三峡大学考研专业课试题892英语语言学2014.doc

1、三 峡 大 学2013年研究生入学考试试题(A卷)科目代码： 892 科目名称： 英语语言学考试时间为3小时，卷面总分为150分答案必须写在答题纸上I. Filling the gaps (20 points). 1. Sociolinguistic is the study of the characteristics of language varieties, the characteristics of their functions, and the characteristics of their speakers as these three constantly interac

2、t and change within a _ community.第1页，共4页2. Saussure distinguished the linguistic competence of the speaker and the actual phenomena or data of linguistics as _ and _.3. Psycholinguistics usually involves the study of the _ and mental activity associated with the use of language.4. Stylistic analysi

3、s of dramatic texts has tended to follow one of the three approaches, treating drama as poetry, fiction or _.5. According to the Oxford philosopher John Langshaw Austin (1955), there are two types of sentences: performatives and _.6. _ is a typical grammatical unit between morpheme and word group.7.

4、 A _ is a specification of what takes place in the classroom, which usually contains the aims and contents of teaching and sometimes contains suggestions of methodology.8. _ is a logical relationship between two sentences in which the truth of the second necessarily follows from the truth of the fir

5、st, while the falsity of the first follows from the falsity of the second.9. Morpheme is the smallest unit of language in regard to the relationship between _ and _.10. Chomskys _ hypothesis is based on his observations that some important facts can never be otherwise explained adequately.II. Multip

6、le choices: There are 4 choices in each statement marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that is the most suitable for the statement (20 points). 1. Rogers (1961) sets up a tripartite model for successful communication, which include the following points. Odd one out:a. trying to look at things from o

7、ther persons point view b. trying to sense other persons feeling to a given issuec. trying to understand other persons way of knowing the world.d. trying to hear other persons utterance2. There are three factors which may help identify words. Odd one out: 第2页，共4页a. stabilityb. specificityc. relative

8、 uninterruptibilityd. a minimum free form3. In Michael Burkes analysis of Philip Larkins poem, Going, three cognitive tools are used. Odd one out:a. figure and groundb. image schematac. meaning constructiond. cognitive metaphor4. Corpus linguistics provides _ representation of language.a. prescripti

9、veb. descriptivec. cognitived. analytical5. _ displays such contrasts as “masculine, feminine, neuter, animate, inanimate, etc. for the analysis of word classes. a. Number b. Case c. Agreement d. Gender6. G. Leech recognizes 7 types of meaning in his Semantics, first published in 1974 as conceptual

10、meaning, connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, _, _, and _. Odd one out: a. denotative meaningb. reflected meaningc. collocative meaningd. thematic meaning7. _ is the study of meaning in context. It is concerned with the way language is used to communicate rather than with the way

11、language is internally structured.第3页，共4页a. Morphologyb. Syntaxc. Semanticsd. Pragmatics 8. _ involves the comparison of two concepts in that one is construed in terms of the other. a. Metonymy b. Metaphor c. Categorization d. Schema9. The theory of meaning which relates the meaning of a word to the

12、 thing it refers to, or stands for, is known as the _.a. inferential theory b. referential theoryc. integrated theoryd. logical semantics10. The procedure of error analysis consists of the following steps. Odd one out:a. prescriptionb. recognitionc. descriptiond. explanationIII. Briefly discuss the

13、following concepts. Please acknowledge the works that you cited where appropriate (40 points):1. Speech act theory 2. The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis3. L1 transfer4. Language variationIV. Briefly answer the following questions. Please acknowledge the works that you cited where appropriate (30 points):第4页

14、，共4页1. How can teachers help second language learners in vocabulary?2. What is the relationship between language and society?3. What is the role of grammar in second language learning?V. Essay writing: Select one of the following topics and write a 500-word essay. Please include references where app

15、ropriate (40 points).1. To what extent do you dis/agree that native English speaking teachers of English are more competent than non-native English speaking teachers of English?2. To what extent do you dis/agree that second language learners should start to learn the second language as early as possible?