三峡大学考研专业课试题892英语语言学2016.doc

1、三 峡 大 学2016年硕士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. Multiple 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 (10*2=20).1._, father of modern linguistics, is known for his Course in General Lin

2、guistics.a. Saussure b. Halliday c. Chomsky d. Langacker2. There are _ main areas of phonetic study.a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 53. The term _ linguistics may be defined as a way of referring to the approach, which focuses on language change over various periods of time and at various historical stages.a. syn

3、chronic b. diachronic c. comparative d. historical comparative4. The morpheme “sun” in the word “sunflower” is a (n) _.a. bound morpheme b. bound form c. inflectional morpheme d. free morpheme 5. The branch of linguistics that studies how context influences the way speaker interpret sentences is cal

4、led _.a. sociolinguistics b. pragmatics c. semantics d. psycholinguistics6. According to F. de Saussure, _ refers to the abstract linguistic system shared by all the members of a speech community.a. parole b. performance c. langue d. language7. If a linguistic study describes and analyzes the langua

5、ge people actually use, it is said to be _.a. prescriptive b. analytic c. descriptive d. linguistic8. The naming theory is advanced by _.a. Plato b. Bloomfield c. Lakoff d. Saussure9. Lakoff and Johnson (1980) classify conceptual metaphors into 3 categories: ontological metaphors, structural metapho

6、rs, and _.a. grammatical metaphors b. orientation metaphors c. source metaphors d. personified metaphors10.Grammatical changes may be explained, in part, as analogical changes, which are _ or generalizationa. elaboration b. simplification c. external borrowing d. internal borrowingII. True or false:

7、 Judge whether each of the following statements is true or false. Put a T for true or F for false. (10*1=10)1. Relations between meanings of words can be synonymy, antonymy or hyponymy.2. According to semantic triangle, there is no direct link between a symbol and referent, i.e. between a word and a

8、 thing it refers to.3. The sentence Hannibal destroyed Rome belongs to endocentric construction.4. An illocutionary act is the consequence of or the change brought about by the utterance.5. Displacement feature of language means that we can refer to Confucius, or the North Pole, even though the firs

9、t has been dead for over 2550 years and the second is situated far away from us.6. Cold and hot is a pair of gradable antonyms.7. Linguistic principles and theories are mainly used for language teaching and learning.8. Language functions are believed to be lateralized primarily in the left hemispher

10、e of the brain.9. According to Blending Theory, new meaning can be created from emergent structure.10. Language by no means determines the ways we perceive the objective world，but by its convenience，availability，and habitual use，does influence the perceptions of human being.III. Define the following

11、 terms (10*4=40)1. Duality2. Construal 3. Categorization 4. InterlanguageIV. Answer the following questions. (10*3=30)1. What are the three notions of phone, phoneme and allophone, and how they are related?2. What role does context play in the pragmatic study?3. What is the naming theory? Point out

12、its limitations.V. Write an essay: Youre expected to write a 500-word essay based on the following topic, drawing on what youve learned about linguistics. (50)What is the linguistic research area you are most interested in or familiar with? Please introduce it briefly and add your own comments to it.