英语语言学术语解释语语言学术语解释.doc

英语语言学术语解释Define the following terms: 1.design features: are features that define our human languages, such as arbitrariness, duality, creativity, displacement, cultural transmission, etc. 2.function: the use of language to communicate, to think ,etc. Language functions include imformative function, interpersonal function, performative function, interpersonal function, performative function, emotive function, phatic communion, recreational function and metalingual function. 3.etic: a term in contrast with emic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction of phonetics and phonemics. Being etic means making far to many, as well as behaviously inconsequential, differentiations, just as was ofter the case with phonetic vx.phonemic analysis in linguistics proper. 4.emic: a term in contrast with etic which originates from American linguist Pike’s distinction of phonetics and phonemics.An emic set of speech acts and events must be one that is validated as meaningful via final resource to the native members of a speech communion rather than via appeal to the investigator’s ingenuith or intuition alone. 5.synchronic: a kind of description which takes a fixed instant(usually,but not necessarily,the present),as its point of observation.Most grammars are of this kind. 6.diachronic:study of a language is carried through the course of its history. 7.prescriptive: the study of a language is carried through the course of its history. 8.prescriptive: a kind of linguistic study in which things are prescribed how ought to be,i.e.laying down rules for language use. 9.descriptive: a kind of linguistic study in which things are just described. 10.arbitrariness: one design feature of human language,which refers to the face that the forms of linguistic signs bear no natural relationship to their meaning. 11.duality: one design feature of human language,which refers to the property of having two levels of are composed of elements of the secondary.level and each of the two level