1、第1页共 4 页三 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 True or False statements：There are 10 statements. Please make decisions whether they are true or false (T for true and F for false) (20 points). 1. Language and communication are the two sides of the same coin. ( )2
2、. “I declare that the ship is named Elisabeth” is not a performative sentence. ( )3. Performance is an observable ability to do something or to perform something. ( ) 4. A linguistic study is prescriptive if it describes and analyses facts observed.( )5. The description of a language as it changes t
3、hrough time is a synchronic study.( ) 6. Coughs or snores are not speech sounds. ( )7. Lexicology studies the external structure of words and rules by which words are formed.( ) 8. Locutionary act , illocutionary act and perlocutionary act were first proposed by Bloomfield. ( )9. Most people agree t
4、hat Saussures work marked the beginning of the modern linguistics. ( )10. Dialects include languages. ( )II. 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 (20 points). 1. Ideational function of language is als
5、o called_a. performative b. interpersonal c. emotive d. informative2. _examines how meaning is encoded in a language. Its key concepts include denotation of words, sense relations between words, sense relations, etc. a. Pragmatics b. Semantics c. Morphology d. Syntax3. _ is the study of the sound pa
6、tterns and sound systems of languages. It aims to discover the principles that govern the way sounds are organized in languages, and to explain the variations that occur. a. Phonology b. Phonetics c. Parole d. Psychology4. Many English words have come into being through _in their etymological histor
7、y. A new word is created by cutting the final part, or the initial part or both the initial and final parts.a. acronym b. abbreviation c. back-formation d. blending5. _ displays such contrasts as “masculine, feminine, neuter, animate, inanimate, etc. for the analysis of word classes. a. Number b. Ca
8、se c. Agreement d. Gender6. _ recognizes 7 types of meaning in his Semantics, first published in 1974 as conceptual meaning, connotative meaning, social meaning, affective meaning, reflected meaning, collocative meaning and thematic meaning. a. John Austin b. N. Chomsky c. G. Leech D. C.K. Ogden7. _
9、 involves the comparison of two concepts in that one is construed in terms of the other. a. Metonymy b. Metaphor c. Categorization d. Schema8._ is an act performed in saying something. This act is actually the intention of the speaker. It is performed via the communicative force of an utterance. a.
10、Locutionary act b. Illocutionary act c. Perlocutionary act d. Speech act9. Thought is determined by language. This hypothesis was raised bya. Chomsky b. Austin c. Sapir-Whorf d. Grice10. A: Where is John? B: Hes gone to the library. He said so when he left.Bs answer violated _ maxim/ principle.a. qu
11、ality b. quantity c. manner d. relation III. Give a brief definition to the following ten terms (40 points).language; conversation; phatic communion; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; the Innateness Hypothesis; the London School;pidgin; displacement; interlanguageIV. Briefly discuss the similarities (if
12、 theres any) and differences of the following linguistic pairs (30 points):competence and performancedescriptive and prescriptivesecond language and foreign languagepragmatics and semanticsmetaphor and simileV. Essay writing: you are expected to write a 500 word long essay based on the following topic (40 points).Use your linguistic knowledge to talk about how you can learn a foreign language more successfully.第 4 页
