2014年三峡大学894语言学和应用语言学.docVIP

第1页共 4 页 三 峡 大 学 2014年研究生入学考试试题(A卷) 科目代码： 894 科目名称： 语言学及应用语言学 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 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. Phonetics studies the description, classification and transcription of human sounds. ( ) 2. Language is arbitrary by which we mean language is resourceful because of its duality and its recursiveness. ( ) 3. Syntax examines how meaning is encoded in a language. It is not only concerned with meanings of words as lexical items, but also with levels of language below the word and above it, e.g., meanings of morphemes and sentences. ( ) 4. Grice distinguished the linguistic competence of the speaker and the actual phenomena or data of linguistics (utterances) as “Langue and Parole”. ( ) 5. Grammatical words are known as function words while lexical words are known as content words.( ) 6. Synonymy is the technical name for the sameness relation while antonymy is the name for oppositeness.( ) 7. Socialinguistics studies psychological aspects of language. It usually studies the psychological states and mental activity associated with the use of language.( ) 8. Emotive and expressive functions of language are the same. ( ) 9. The concept of Speech Act was proposed by Halliday. ( ) 10. Most people agree that Saussure’s work marked the beginning of the modern linguistics. ( ) 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. Phatic communion function of language is also called______function. a. greeting b. interpersonal c. emotive d. informative While_____constitutes the immediately accessible data, the linguist’s proper object is the ____ of each community, the lexicon, grammar, and phonology implanted in each individual by his upbringing in society and on the basi